From Alternative Prosaicnesses: First Poems
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

Paternal Abuse

 

dearly beloved, we gather
             husks for the rainy
season so we'd eat and
             not be wet at the same
time i'm your father
             be my daughter? wal
k walk and then you'll
             see "oh god! you strike
some storm, and flood"

 

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