Anime on His Choke Hand

Let's workshop this poem inspired by the Palacio murder in Las Vegas

Anime on His Choke Hand

“Alone” deep in rocky desert
he shrieked into his visor
vanity “What the fuck

did you do!?,” but somehow
the truck-to-ground thud
of the body—boozy

as berries on summer sidewalk—
had him unload again 
over that petechial dollface.

*This poem is unpublished (and dedicated to the memory of Lesly Palacio)

Photo: media.lasvegassun.com/media/img/photos/2020/09/24/20200922_SUN_PalacioFamily_017_t653.jpg?214bc4f9d9bd7c08c7d0f6599bb3328710e01e7b