Reverie

To Sleep Perchance to Dream

By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 07, 2015

Reverie

Cavernous basement apartment
University Road
The Murder Building
Cambridge
Haunted house
Cheap rent
Round platform
Under windows brimming with plants
Elevated bed
Patterns of Christmas lights above
Walls painted silver and gold
Evocative Shangri-La
End of the day
Chilling on weed
Distant sirens
Becoming ever louder
Smell of smoke
Must be near
Cool and apathetic
Thunder on the stairs
Pounding at the door
Firemen bursting through
Smoke filled kitchen
Joint in ashtray
Ignited
Janson’s History of Art
Tossed in the sink
Doused
Kitchen table singed
Still have it
Memories of long gone
Reefer madness