Rat vs. Lamb

A beach.

The northeast coast of a country.

What happened was a man.

A man came.

Onto the beach and then

Another

Came.

He wanted to.

The day

Might have made me sorry.

I left, saw

At the base of a palm tree

A rat.

I was born and I lived

Swishing fluoride around my mouth with the others.

From various classmates, I stole

Blue scissors, a hamburger sharpener, ten bucks.

My mom found the ten bucks.

She beat me.

I’m sorry

The teacher told me to say to Mandeep.

So I said, crying, I’m sorry, Mandeep.

I wore a mint-green Donna Karan suit in the Lincoln LS commercial.

The makeup lady put concealer on my knuckles.

My husband

Was played by an NHL player whose mom was a white lady.

(He brought her to set!)

I got five grand, was nine

Teen, saw a Maybelline model

On the way back from the bathroom plus a flasher’s

Wobbling dinky:

“Happy Canada Day.”

I really like covering my head.

The landlord said he lost his phone.

The tenant she said call it.

He said I did, I did

And then the tenant’s boyfriend was like

I called you and a girl picked up and

Said it was the wrong number.

(And I’m like okay so it was the wrong number why are you even

Telling the guy that)

And then her boyfriend was like ya, I called it four times

She said it was the wrong number.

And then, then I was like okay. Hmm what the fuck.

And the tenant was like maybe it was your wife?

And her boyfriend was like no it

Was a girl.

So there’s a

Question there.

Also apparently the dog likes the cat

But the cat

Does not like the dog.

I want to walk the park with you

And look at the wondering people.

My neck.

My scalp.

I read somewhere that

It’s okay.

One kind of pork or –

Another kind of pork.

May I recommend the ones we

Already have?

Oh ya

I’m not coming because I don’t want to.

That’s why I’m not coming.

Three hundred dollars for a half-leather belt.

With blue fish on it.

I thought you said it was a novella.

My neck.

My wick.

A man keeps three decades of nail clippings in a jar.

Chartreuse or mustard

Solid or see-thru:

The loose, wide stripes

On a girl.

Purse blacker than her shorts.

Hi.

Chicken/egg.

I need to take a dump.

Part of me doesn’t believe it will work.

Who are people? Who are anybody?

It takes so long to know anything.

And it takes even longer

To know anything at all.

The pork chop is cold because I won’t heat it.

It’s breakfast.

It is breakfast.

I’m scared.

I take a medicine.

My sweet little

Coconut face falls.

The reds.

Pale yellow.

Screaming.

When I wash my feet at night

I’m cleansed of

Everything stupid.