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Extramarital Sex A masochist trained in extravagant feats of mind-over-matter sat in a box for 24 hours in deep meditation while thousands of scorpions made themselves at home on his person: backs of his knees, between his toes, his groin, neck, scalp, eyelashes, etcetera. You were recalling the scorpion king before you fell asleep last night and so in your dream you took a spider into your mouth and right away she bit you. Your tongue ballooned so you could barely phone me: "A black widow bit my tongue--help me!" And I refused. "You put the venomous thing in your mouth-- you take the consequences." I feel ashamed, when you tell me the dream, not to have come to your aid. I might have saved you. I might have redeemed our relations. But fucking A, how dumb can you get-- taking a thing you know to be deadly into your mouth like that? |
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Issue #28, August, 2002 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.