CURTAIN CALL
The diner has closed
vinyl booths are empty
Roy Orbison
has stopped crooning
A dreamscape storyteller
who married art and noir
has ceased acting as a conduit
between the innocent and the damned
Although the surrealist
who walked in between Hitchcock’s footsteps
won’t peel back any more masks,
the color blue still equals distress
and barking dogs will be a bad omen
Our beloved auteur
smoked one last cigarette
before setting down the lens,
much to everyone’s chagrin
He entered his empire unencumbered
where dreams are codes
and doppelgangers reside
Bio: Michael N. Thompson likes bacon, cats and fantasy football. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Word Riot, Toronto Quarterly and San Pedro River Review. He is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being A Murder Of Crows published by University of Hell Press.
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