THE NEW JOB

Here you are working nights in a neighborhood

Shady with pimps and tramps.

God   I pray   keep him safe,

Keep him safe.

I wrest my heart up from my toes

Picturing 

Him bloodied in an alley.

I tell him this

Tell him my fear   my dread

And

He laughs!  He laughs!

But still the demons materialize

Inside my head.