December 30, 2015 / barton smock

painkillers

give me
the gift
of sorrow
the strongman’s
pencil

–

in the purgatory
of spaced out
animals, piss
on the short
straw

–

tell me I’m not surrounded

–

show to my brother
youtube videos
of our mother
sleeping
on her father’s
back

–

say something in my sister’s mouth

–

scrub me
from the shoemaker’s dream
with a rock
the rock
I deserve

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