MONO ISSUE 1 PDF FLIPBOOK - Flipbook - Page 87
THIN-SKINNED
(guy walks into a bar)
by klipschutz
“If you’re like me, you’ll do anything
to avoid a mountain range of laundry—
administer a final warning, gratis,
sweep up at a food truck smash-and-grab,
or watch the sun get homesick going down.
Speak of the devil, stripes of light become you,
double doors dispensing uncut ozone.
Already in your eyes I see the sign.
Why listen to a litany absent a through line?
You’re absolutely right, who wants to know
a dressed-in-darkness white knight with no steel,
dodging rubber bullets of flop sweat.
Shine on, you’re not a frozen bit like me,
piss turns to lemonade on your pink tongue
that cream loves best. Apologies. My reach
impedes my grasp. What could have been,
defiled. Open mouth. Insert foot. Deep. Extract with prejudice. Farewell before hello.
Sit, don’t say. I’ll go.”
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