Why (Again) I Will Not Burn the Flag
It begins with, “Don’t you believe in company loyalty?”
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Working Order
We clutch a bit
now for sleep
through the night,
choose sharper tipped
verbs, phrases,
questions of status
quo, but are handed
cliches
Why I Will Not Burn the Flag – Author’s Note on 4th of July
It’s complicated, really, it began so long ago,
while bent over a bin of gourmet ice cream, scooping
it out for a customer: “Don’t you believe in company
loyalty?” And I had to tell him, no. “I am not loyal
to groups,” I said. “I am loyal to people.”
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The Last Thing I Drank Was Clear
The last thing I drank was clear.
The number of times I’ve had
to repeat this reproduces, every
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After the House Fell Through
I would like to tell you that now
I am happy. But I am not.
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Storyline, v2**
Trigger warning. (Suicide, self harm. )
**If you are in crisis or think you might be, PLEASE call or text 988. Or chat at 988lifeline.org. Note: I am not in crisis.
Beginnings
I am sitting in a folding chair, cheap paper plate dappled
with prescriptions, writing on a $400 laptop connected
to a hotspot, watching the timer as megabytes run out.
Last Morning at the Airbnb
They say you can’t go home again.
But that is if you don’t have a home,
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