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  • Void if
  • Laura Bylenok (bio)

B) The Product has been damaged from external causes such as collision with an object, or from fire, flooding, sand, dirt, windstorm, lightning, earthquake, an Act of God, theft, blown fuse, Trojan Horses, or improper use of any electrical source.

If I—if if—if all my little x’splotted on a curve, let’s say,

can be defined by f: the functionas the nexus

of desire: DNA:is it an Act of God?

If so, then say—without compunction—oh please reck his rod

and give me one good lay:I want to be electrified, destroyed

by your improper source—send in your Trojan Horse—

I want to warp the axisof my if, the generations of my void. [End Page 30]

Laura Bylenok

laura bylenok’s poems have appeared in The Hopkins Review, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Artful Dodge, and other journals. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.

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