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Pleasantville

It is the dog door and the picket fence.

It is the malicious world destroyed in you.

And your name is writ in dust

Spelled out in coils of your sloshing yellow belly

 

Eve smiles at you from the kitchen table

Pieces of fruit are stuck in her teeth.

A river of spittle pauses on her chin

And drips down onto her warm breast.

 

It is the kind of happiness

The dog door happiness

That inspired the snake to eat its own tail.

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joseph-c
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Aug 30, 2012
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