Manipulative Man of Slightly Below-Average Intelligence Who Traveled to Florida So He Could Be Executed for Killing Women Did What He Intended
Ask anyone. This place will get to you:
the beaches, the sun, the thunder, the girls.
I want to be dead,
but I want the cops to catch me.
The women I killed, it was nothing personal;
I made them laugh like any nice guy
before I shifted into myself.
Look what the rays can do to your skin,
to your mind.
I wanted to murder: I wanted to die.
I was right and wrong at the same time.
The victims were a vehicle, like my Volkswagen:
the unopenable passenger door, clevis for handcuffs.
Did you just want me to sit alone in the sand with a sweating Miller?
Did you want me to just raise my hand near the pounding surf hello?
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Paul David Adkins
Paul David Adkins (he/him) served in the US Army from 1991-2013. He holds a MA in Writing and Oral Tradition from The Graduate Institute, Bethany, CT. He counsels soldiers and teaches students in a correctional facility. Publications include Barzakh, The Mark, Crab Creek, Kissing Dynamite, Badwater, and Spillway.