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There is a Light that Never Goes Out

Eric Phetteplace

I ask her if God exists
and she says it doesn’t matter.
The ceiling drips light
but I’m floating face
down in toilet water.

I exaggerate out of necessity,
run outside drunk and shirtless,
fill the cavity
with an appendix
as beautiful as it is useless.

The next morning, language a corpse
and I carve up the cadaver.
My apologies
as dead as the trees
they’re written on.

I’ll take a few years
and cover it in clothing.
Morrissey said there is a light
that never goes out and damn it
it’s burnt my retinas.

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