Dungeon Detour from Novellas by LAPHONA

Story

In the corner of your mind palace
down the stairs, below the basement
is an unsafe room of exquisite design,
your own personal dungeon.

Sometimes there’s no way
to get from point B to point A
without the detour here.

Well swept, dusted and polished
You leave the lighting low
enough to project the shadows
and shapes of resident ghosts.
Enough to gleam off the instruments
you’ve crafted and culled,
to uncover, reveal, surface,
excavate, exhume, examine,
poke, prod and punch…
the fleshy inner layers of self-examination.

So much to walk past…
the monuments of pain,
the targets of blame,
the effigies of shame.
Carry on, they won’t follow.

This perilous peramble
is the fastest route
but only if you
Keep walking

• Experimental
• guitar butter
• instrumental rock
• space opera
• spy rock
• surf punk
• California