(Haiku ending)

I admit, this is a rough one
House of Cards
In a gale force wind

That fifth had gone down so easy
Abruptly turning around
Oh no, soup was on the stove, still
Ran back from the car
The flagstone made the sprawl
The pain in my piano hand 
still remains
Badly designed walkway
I shouldn’t be driving, I thought 
As I got in the car

He had punched her in the face
The night my fake professor status
Was taken away
I was drowning myself in pity
When the shouting started
I blocked the second blow
As he called the sheriff 
Look of shock as they cuffed him
They talked about suicide pacts,
Constantly 

By the next week I was fully self-medicated 
That date rape drug, bourbon and cocaine

Famous impresario came to help
We found him in the sprawl of
Parkland Hospital
After the prison beating 
Manacled to his bed like Oswald
His self assassination had begun
Dead in Santa Fe a year later
Pills and booze, not malaria
As he had claimed 

The swelling went down
She later married a transsexual 
Goth Art curator into the kinky stuff
Living happily ever after 

That eagle circles 
above the ancient temple 
Or some shit like that

6/6/2023