Literature
skipping breakfast.
i thought i saw you
skipping breakfast,
hockey puck adam's apple
supple sudden granny smith teeter
tottering over your plate.
you've been cooking for the enemy:
the pastries, pheasant, jam and peas,
the spilled milk, the muffins,
your damned baggage is
taking up my refrigerator space.
sagging eyes, sagging teeth
you're not looking so swell,
honey, why don't you take a seat?
rotting flies, buzzing feet:
one unhinged door, one more hungry beast.
i thought i saw you
inside of that hurricane,
all our crumpled love notes flying, an epic poem,
a chapter of loathing; all my demons overhead,
that semen-stained handkerchief by the bed.
i thought i