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Highroll Gone Wrong
Heroes 1977

Cara Losier Chanoine

This is the kiss off.
I won’t slither down
the greasy pipe
to drink rotting wine
from your hands.
You,
you will be
the protest on the wind:
your fearful hands,
your grim song.

No one saw you
hobble over,
but I remember
your scalding face.
I saw your eyes
at the crossfades,
and there was slaughter
in the air.
Someone fetch a priest.

I remember standing
in back rows,
and shame
was on the other side of the wall,
but you,
you will be the heroine,
standing by the high road
gone wrong,
listening to the tracks
of Sam Therapy and King Dice
with their blank looks,
no books.
You get up and sleep.

Your lips cut a smile
on your face,
but there’s grim ice
on our cages.
Just for one day,
we can beat you back.
In the back rows
of city limits,
you spill your secrets,
evergreen.
In the back rows
of the city limits,
the heroine dies.

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