Thunder Sandwich  #23

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Kate Salvino

A FEW DAYS LATER     


They told me I stole her car,

bit her hand and took the keys-

That my punch missed, but spit

like rotting egg had stung her face

that I called my dealer, then dad

I had said "goodbye, I love you,"


They said I went to Rite-Aid,

barefoot and bleeding,

I stole men's sandals

bought beer, two bottles of Tylenol

some Sominex and gum,

all while bleeding.


They told me some man

saw me vomit in a parked car,

windows rolled up, undigested

pills rolling off my tongue

like Pez from a dispenser

my head hanging on the steering

wheel - an empty piņata.


They told me I was belligerent

eyes rolling to white, vitals failing,

cocaine running my veins

like fierce angry rapids.

They told me my liver was failing

and to grow the fuck up.


Stiffed


You hampered me

like a stiff dick

in baggy pants

in public.

My coffee

that morning

tasted like heroin and sin.

I wished for someone

to remove me--

turn out the lights!

Do something with this erection!

I'm a woman for crissakes!



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