From Any Nightmare by J.J. Campbell

you remember you
were told as a child
that you can always
wake up from any
nightmare

forty years later

unemployed

overweight

and alone

just more bullshit
from your youth

J.J. Campbell (1976 – ?) has given up the farm life and is now trapped in suburbia. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Dead Snakes, Easy Street, The Stray Branch, Pyrokinection and Horror Sleaze Trash. You can find him most days bitching about only the things he cares about on his highly entertaining blog, evil delights. (http://evildelights.blogspot.com)