True Story. by Matt Amott

Everything turns up 

a notch

when we both arrive 

in the same city.

Marrow eaters,

sucking the life

until the keg is tapped 

and the band goes home.

Recklessly storming the streets,

He clears a path

through the heathens 

of Saturday night

and I linger 

a few feet behind

watching 

the mad one burn. 

Like Kerouac,

I am Sal 

to his Moriarty.

Reporting the antics

to the masses,

A drink in my one hand 

and camera in the other

because mere words

won't do.

There has to proof

of all these events 

or I will be labeled

a writer of fiction.

Matt Amott is a poet, musician and photographer who wanders around the Pacific Northwest. He is co-founder and co-editor of Six Ft. Swells Poetry Press and has been published in numerous collections as well as two books of his own, THE COAST IS CLEAR (Six Ft. Swells Press) and GET WELL SOON (Epic Rites Press).  He can be reached and purchases made at afterhourspoetry.com.