Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #6

lost shade, volume iv: roll tide there was the one i remember least on a biting autumn night just outside the hipsterest of pizza places she was the kitten and i was the purr of the can opener she shivered beneath a lean tank top and mini skirt this long before electric patio warmers were standard as a mere gentlemen i lent my favorite college sweatshirt ragged from seam to smile which set off her daddy issues and i became even more desirable through the next excruciating hour she lobbed crude advances upon me like hand grenades not knowing my buns were happily safe in another foxhole i never did have the heart to tell her much later she sulked towards a bullied pick up truck failed fuck me stilettos slung over defeated shoulders i watched from two blocks away as she repeatedly dropped her keys to the cement she didn’t care about flashing her v-string to the few cold souls still out but took care to conceal the tears of which there were plenty i asked my drummer at our next practice to get my sweatshirt back it was that same shitty band Zachary M Hodson Zachary M Hodson is a multi-genre artist from Kansas City who has spent the last decade focused equally on poetry, music and music/sports journalism. His writing has been featured in Euphony Journal, Leveler Poetry, The Literary Nest, Future’s Trading, Skidrow Penthouse, Royals Blue and The Deli Magazine.