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Before the year ends

Shampoo your carcass.

Lean it against a tree, like a scare-crow in your garden.

You smell very greasy and downright delicious.

It’s impossible to imagine how greasy you smell,

unless you’ve worked in the fast food industry.

 

Scramble up some soupy eggs for us,

we’re hungry, all of us, all the time.

Your emaciated and good at it, too.

You’re talking on the phone to no one in particular.

You hang up, “bye.”

 

Don’t tell me when to wake up.

Talk to me instead about hormones,

and poke fun at human anatomy.

Talk about how manic you are, and I’ll agree,

I’ll say, “me too.”

 

Flash freeze all your groceries.

Cancel your subscriptions, lock the fire-door

and wonder why you don’t like dogs.

Try to think of something to say to someone,

something nice.

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