Come To Grief
Shrill feedback drone,
Guitars downtuned
Into oblivion
As strangled screams
Crawl up the
Broken staircase,
Littered with cigarette
Butts and dirty
Needles,
As cymbals crash
Like miserable thunder.
©2023 Ted Jackins All rights reserved.
Poem inspired by the band Come To Grief.
Ted Jackins is a writer and musician from North Carolina. They’re the author of the chapbooks Psych Ward Blues and Mercury, In Retrospect, both available from Alien Buddha Press.