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I am your controlling jock boyfriend with a car

by Anne-Marie Daphne Dillon

 

Blonde flattop, cauliflower ear Riddled with anachronisms I lick you and you’re bleeding I honk from the street I will never come to your door I am out of control and I drink I reek Pulling your gum out in a long string Wrapping it around my fingertip Until it purples My head hangs from the bleachers Poodle skirts and underwear Gesturing foully Behind the young teacher I am missing half of this tooth Everything in my locker has gone rotten And I am out of control Can you smell me? Too dumb for sports Don’t come to my game Snapping bra straps Telephone boxes and baseball bats Sticky Tijuana bibles Donald Duck Ophelia Pratte Dildo Dooley A drawing of Mickey Mouse fucking Minnie Mouse Carved into the inside of my desk With a penknife from Boy Scouts Coffee cans stuffed with arrowheads Scarfing pills Virgins Piles of dead rabbits Baby fur Lighting the barn on fire Eiffel-towering a girl Razing a field Stealing camels from the Nativity scene Driving to the reservation for liquor I spiked the punch I play dice

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