Things Only Musician Understand

Part Six: JJ

when I got there

all I saw were women

and children

either lying dead

or being raped

or being shot

or being tormented.

I saw a man

holding red hair in his hands

facing away from me

pushing a woman's head into his groin area.

Something overcame me

but all I could think was

"save Eliza"

and I walked up behind him

and snapped his neck.

I felt his bones disconnect

and shatter in my hands.

I looked down

and Maggie was there,

not Eliza,

Maggie.

I helped her up

and put her arm around my good shoulder

and dragged her away.