One final Halloween movie inspired piece. The opening scene is all I remember the rest is impure imagination. Blood is best fresh and this one is really dripping dripping dripping.
Bloody Footprints
the movie opens
on a busy sidewalk
someone with a knife
stabs a stranger
keeps on going
while the victim collapses
remember the knife
the flash of it
the thrust
blood blood blood
people stepping in it
as they step over the body
on their important way
bloody footprints
quickly splotching the sidewalk
as the camera
pulls up up
the police arrive
the credits roll
over the expanding trail
of bloody footprints
steps lead to smart shops
to offices
into elevators
down marble corridors
over carpets in hotel hallways
cafe floors
washroom stalls
blood gets on hands
trying to clean shoes
the fingerprints on mirrors
coffee cups
documents
dried flakes fall between
keyboard keys
smear smart phones
traces tracked undetected through
airport screening machines
splotches on luggage
the blood travels around the world
the sidewalk
with the outline of the body
is a pool of blood
after crime scene photos have been taken
after cellphone photos have hit the net
city works come to clean it up
the camera looks for the stabber
pushing through crowds
roving over heads shoulders
no faces
hands washing
blood pooling in sinks
almost dripping down the walls
of apartments
seeping out of TV screens
bloody footprints
lead up to a door
the bell rings
you reach to open the door
the closing credits roll
