Martian by James Cagney

Author:James Cagney [Cagney, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

WICKED GAME

Oklahoma flatlands. Night’s rich perfume of lightning and oil. This, back when I was clairvoyant in music videos. I’m with my cousin who’s driving on a knife blade of asphalt neatly slicing the tundra. He appears fixed, rigid. He hard-stares into the blue-black screen of sky tuned to nothing. We’re together this week due to death and blood, both strands sagging loose between us. We are family without having ever been friends. Perhaps the true death is not his grandmother, but himself, since his heart remains this week in the purse of a woman who can no longer be bothered. This empty plated landscape, licked clean of any footprints, is the perfect metaphor for all I’ve ever known of love. But before I can figure anything out, just then, a sudden guitar calls order from the radio. Between the silences we pass back and forth, the car fills with strummed notes, a swirling phantom embroidering the air. Sometimes, I said, gently parting our curtain of silence, when I hear this song, I imagine an astronaut, bouncing along moon rock like a yo-yo in slow motion, away from the crumpled spaceship he’s just been tossed from. And in the distance, beyond the crash, planet earth turns perfect and silent as he crawls back to his smoldering vessel, his face a shattered web of blood.

Some people, he said to the highway, just see things different.

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