THE DEMON KEY 
 
The invisible bulkheads

close 
in 
fast 
I can feel them 
the happy hot walls smiling 
igniting my lungs 
with suspicious stranger’s eyes 
talking in secret codes 
and unknown languages 
they whisper into their watches 
watching my reality twist 
and bend 
like 
a Batman super villain 
trap 
the madmen laughing 
there’s always someone laughing 
someone pointing 
at a blank white void 
there’s no way out 
he 
ha 
ho 
they force 
the thought into my mind 
there’s no way out 
there’s no way out 
unless 
you’re crazy enough 
to find 
that goddamned  
key. 
 
 

Bradley Mason Hamlin 
 

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