Somewhere on the royal road to madness
he stops for a sandwich
At the diner’s glass aluminum door
a bell rings, a smoke alarm chirps like a tern
He brushes past a stranger
At the counter he’s served a sandwich
filled with what he’s told is pastrami
Only much later, does he learn
the stranger lifted a hair from his coat
that the kitchen used to vat-grow his double
whom it murdered cured cooked and fed him
to discredit him as the worst sort of cannibal
He only wises up years after
when he goes to the ocean alone
to confront a ubiquitous implacable beast
to learn the laws of which he’d lived in ignorance
and to cure himself of a terrible nausea
Colin Dodds is an author, poet and screenwriter. His writing has appeared in more than 200 publications, been nominated and shortlisted for numerous prizes, and praised by luminaries including Norman Mailer and David Berman. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. See his work at thecolindodds.com.
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