Most of the people from the present
are gone now; we never held them
very tightly, but what our wounds lack
in depth, they make up for in breadth.
If living is a sort of punishment or reward,
well there’s no way I can finish
that sentence. I’m so young, I have
to show you how many years
with my fingers. The only thing worse
than advice is an opinion. This paper
bag is full of them, and a lone
hydraulic squeal is telling me
it’s garbage night. The moon agrees,
which you may think it automatically does,
but more and more it seems it won’t.
from They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re FullFind it in the library
Copyright © 2014 Mark Bibbins
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