Tuesday, January 25, 2022

New Poetry by Rob Tiffin










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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