Disaster Movie Survivor. By Kevin Ridgeway

I was rescued

and they died

I am bewildered 

don't understand 

and none of you 

know what it means 

to me as I am lifted

from the shipwreck 

that killed my family 

and just before 

the helicopter arrived 

my girlfriend perished 

and I remained stoic 

and I moved on

until another disaster 

knocks the world over.

KEVIN RIDGEWAY lives and writes in Long Beach, CA. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slipstream, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, San Pedro River Review, The Cape Rock, Spillway, Up the River, Suisun Valley Review, KYSO Flash, Home Planet News, Cultural Weekly, Big Hammer, Misfit Magazineand So it Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He is the author of six chapbooks of poetry. His latest book, A Ludicrous Split, a collaboration with fellow poet Gabriel Ricard, is now available from Alien Buddha Press.