Field Trip
We visited the Lincoln Memorial,
the Washington Monument,
the National Air and Space Museum,
the National Museum of Natural History.
The final stop on the tour was the Exorcist
steps. Not the ones from the spider-walk scene.
The ones from the final showdown where
Father Karras convinces the demon Pazuzu
to stop possessing Regan and possess him instead.
Once the demon is inside him, Karras flings himself
out a window and down a long flight of concrete stairs.
His bones crack and his body bleeds as he tumbles
to his death, forcing the demon that possessed him
to flee our mortal plane.
After the tour we ate cheeseburgers
at one of the original Five Guys locations
and then we headed home.
- © Rob Tiffin 2022
Rob Tiffin writes poems, makes short films, and records podcasts in the Florida panhandle. He also really likes frogs.
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