smear elevator bath on his lips

paste hospital leaves in an ambulance attempt
their scissors will be kind to him, suitably fragile and ancient

she gave him her screams for two years
corpse rehearsal in fifteen minutes


**


Found Poem: I’m disappointed in your thesis
but I want to buy some of your drawings

two years later his nose began to collapse
lilacs nipping at his feet


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salmon crisp in scissors loop with intoxicating static
emerge as a weave, he embraces

actress posing nude for a sandwich
and twenty bucks


Dad, don’t fall asleep, you have to shave my ass


December, 2004

Ray Craig