the likelihood of Losing sleep by somedrunkblackspoon, literature
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the likelihood of Losing sleep
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She has become one remarkable appendage.
Among the slop of barstools we were introduced;
had her pulse, perhaps, become any sadder
I'd have thought her a reptile.
"But this is about mammals,"
slunk from me, suppressed
by the stature of my sweating tumbler;
and I boiled to beat my extinction out the door,
then very swaggered, watched a swallowtail
swirl on the landing of an arid alleyway
to tatter its wings, so pasted
to a piece of warm gum.
"A correct assessment, butterfly."
"But this is about mammals."
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Though I wish, I am not exempt from interaction.
I've been writing about her for mo
Pushing Fatima
It was fall then.
and snow had just begun
to sweep the street lights, the waves at Edgewater Park
opened to swallow the stone walls, the ones
we used to jump between
after church.
Inside, we passed notes between compacts,
which the Sr. Marion warned would steal our souls:
the 7th deadly sin.
Here I saw you, decorated
by some ancient priest, in a respectable dress,
one that was years old. Your fingers
curled around the third decade
From a classroom I could see your lips
moving in a stiff struggle of dust,
pealing shades of blue and white.
I smiled
because you reminded me of the zombie movies
we used to w