Avalon Bombshell

Episode 14: The Bomb Prom

Broken Miracles: Histories #12

loneliness
came easy
for me,

back when
I was a kid.

- leper leper
leper -

people saw
the wheelchair,

but not me –

at Cape Christopher Harvest Chapel
they'd always
lay hands on me
asking God

to heal me,
all the way
so I could walk.

so God's plan might make

Sense

to them.

(it never even
occurred to me

I didn't have
to feel guilty

for being a freak –

for being

me.)

until one day,
tired of their torrents –
exhausted by their exhortations,

My mother
EXPLODED

"Why can't you love him
for who he is?"

(I couldn't love
Mum
more than I did

in that one moment -
it meant

everything

to me)

(still does.)

Maybe I only realized
the truth for a brief
flicker of a moment:

But I'd finally found friends
who did

just that.

The Bomb Prom

the last adventure
Ava, Pea, & I had
before high school graduation

was the Bomb Prom.

(After the previous year,
we'd all made separate –

& then mutual decisions

not to attend regular prom
Senior year.

Ava could clearly see Pea
was never gonna
agree to go again –

to be mobbed by
the Neanderthals
we went to school with...

(though Pea
would probably
say that was

too harsh on
the historical
Neanderthals!)

& I was certainly in
no mood to repeat my
kool aid spilling
heartbreak trick)

And so –
we got together
& chose to do

something different -
something special -

something weird -

The Bomb Prom.

We'd all dress up
in cosplay –
hang out at Ava's –

& watch
TAB Season 4's Finale

together.

(for nerds –
a gathering of
three people
might as well

be a prom...)

—-

I was the first to arrive
at the threshold of her house
(again)

Avalon Gates
with pale skin -
forgetting the freckles -

(though, if I'm being totally honest,
they were impossible to forget)