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There are little wordsthat can fit in little places,if you say them small enough.
To fit a song into a poreyou have to be preparedfor the day it will sweat.
If words had tails, you couldstick them on people. If spoken,they’d become a different creature.
You’re blinded and turnedfive times around. Nothingin you knows what it knew.
It’s the best part of the game:Prick the girls you like bestwhile giving the donkey its tail. [End Page 41]
Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, an mfa graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of the chapbooks Disposition for Shininess and Post Pardon as well as the full-length collections Hurrah’s Nest and A Penny Saved. She is a 2013–14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a bfa faculty member at Goddard College. Visit www.arisawhite.com.
