Suzanne Nielsen

Channeling


Would you believe someone who told you

Pomeranians are the only breed that eat

until they blow up? I know, I had doubts

about this myself before the reenactment

last night on a local television station.


There I was

channel changer in hand when

my mind snapped

my finger tapped

before I could stop

myself

the screen grew

a symphonized canine cacophony

unleashing Proud Mary unplugged

during a staged eulogy in the rented

River Room east of the Mississippi

where the narrator intermittently

projected fuzzy slides of a Pom

in its youth. In the background

far off in the right corner of the screen

sure enough, it blew, lava-like spew

so real that before I knew it

I looked down at my hands

the left still clinging to the remote while the right

clenched a clear and clean Popov bottle

cap missing

shots swallowed

my mind

relieved of doubt.


Would you believe someone who told you

Humans are the only breed that drink

till they blow up?



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