Study Hall in the Night School of Volition
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See it from the killer's point of view. Visualizethe room. Land of opportunity. Butcherblock. Knives. Heterodoxy of ciphers. Bodyof musk on parole on the floor.
Resonate with motive labeled memory,anabolic streetlights, the numerous usesof gloves. Log on, search, select, unsub,log off. Refrain from logging back on.
Check the clock. Check your watch.Examine your wrist for interest. Look hard.Consider furniture, pubic hair, logic.Role play contrition. Propagate both parts.
Translate grace-the indecision loversmistake for regret. Write closing arguments.The best defense is a throwaway cell.Call your baby-sitter, Mother. [End Page 103]
Beth Simon's poems appear in Beloit Poetry Review, Epoch, NAR, and elsewhere. Her fiction and memoir pieces appear in Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Quarterly West, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Out of Nowhere, The Body's Shape was published by Pecan Grove Press.
