on short notice, a woman narrates her own beating
MRI, or the stickman’s
first
snowstorm.
a telephone called depression.
we can no more save
the alien
that died
for jesus
than we can write
the dog-whistle
bible.
I’m sad because I’m circumcised.
the scarecrow
has dreams
of becoming
a surgeon.
I’m no expert on sleep. I’m being followed
by a coat hanger.
/ ask my hand if it’s true that all the babies had to stay in their mothers to survive.
kingsoftrain 
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