Jolt Jolt Jolt

Jolt jolt jolt
Up under the arm
Arrows between my tombstone ribs
Shouts and screams and
Rumbling sighs
That travel
Down my fizzling legs
And out my melancholy toes

I lose my breath
Off to wander
An empty playground
In the grayest autumn
Hard like a dial tone
Expansive like a distressed mind
In a circuit board of fear
Computing a way out

Jolt jolt jolt
Only to wake
Centripetally dizzy
Reaching to the nightstand
To find my mantra
That returns my breath
And pulls the rubber band back
To lay in an open hand