Todd Mercer

DEFCON 1

“Jesus wept,” Mom said,
that prominent forehead vein flexing
as her offspring scattered to the four points
of the compass, no one lingering
to see the explosion, or what landed where.

Todd Mercer coined the popular culture term “high-tracked” (becoming side-tracked from one’s stream of thought due to being high) and wrote a digital chapbook, Life-wish Maintenance, which appears at Right Hand Pointing.