Stab
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We loved—better than handled birds, hatching our fool’s paradise, a cardboard city circus.
A flesh and blood box office proportions us in clover. My marinba heartbeat has dared foreskin piercings, bulimic audiences. I’ve done it all with knife-lobbing clowns like you.
Lightning-hooped I am a throwback, ghetto-centric mannequin. I don’t want to kick velvet.
No more. [End Page 1070]
Christopher Barnes
Christopher Barnes is author of Lovebites, a collection of poems, published by Chanticleer Press (Edinburgh, Scotland). He lives in Newcastle, England.
