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Selected Poems
STARFISH
Allen Brafman
FOR
A MICHIGAN FIELD
Claudette Buelow
FEMALE
IMPERSONATOR
(for Sean Penn)
Karl Tierney
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ISSUE
NUMBER FIVE
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ISSUE
NUMBER SIX
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ISSUE
NUMBER SEVEN
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ISSUE
NUMBER EIGHT
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ISSUE NUMBER NINE
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FUCK
YOU
fuck your big brown eyes
fuck your long lashes, their soft flutter against my cheek
fuck the way you took my fingers into your mouth, your tongue’s
caress, the slightest touch kissing hot jolts up my arm
fuck you for holding me close when I whispered what I need,
how to touch me, so hard to say the words and I cried
fuck your broken life, your father crazy cross-eyed sleeping
it off in the shelter, your mother, her suicide heavy
on everything you do and I do
fuck you for your lies, your withholding information
so not to__hurt__
me
fuck you those nights you were busy, not saying her name
fuck you for rolling away into instant snores, knowing
I hadn’t come__fuck you, fuck you,
for knowing, for knowing
for calculating for saying it was your way of__distancing
fuck your apologies and your tears and I took it in and I took
it in and I took it in
fuck you for Emily, for Julia, for Jessica, for Amanda
fuck you for leaving me taking your dick still warm from my body
and putting it into hers
fuck you for not telling me and the hurt, searing pain, the hurt,
sobs shaking my body into fetal positions, fuck you, fuck you,
fuck you, and the pain, and the poison, I’m not good enough, not
pretty enough, not smart enough, not hip enough__not__enough
fuck you
Hilary Melton |
