THE HOUSE THAT JACKY BUILT

I dreamed last night

that I played Jackie O

in a stage production of

The House Of Yes...

& Tyson of Pizza House

played Marty.

 

It was perfect...

& the audience loved us.

 

"I was afraid."

"So I started the game."

You could have heard a pin drop.

 

And when the big finish came,

& he was him & I was her

I pulled the trigger & the gun

was real & Tyson's head exploded!

 

But it wasn't the happy ending

that the movie portrayed

though Parker Posey would have

been pleased as punch.

 

This time we didn't bury him out back

next to Daddy, & we didn't stay together

forever & ever... or did we?

 

They locked me away in a straight

jacket, you see, & when the lights went out

in my pastey white padded wall cell, Tyson was

there with me & pretended he was Marty...

And like before he was afraid -

& so we played the game again.

© DECEMBER 22, 2001 By Jason Wright

- For Tyson -

Because I'm completely insane!