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bad habit I picked up at the bodega

Jermaine Harmon

In the evenings
before bed      I insert
Freud into my mouth
and inhale             he makes me cough

forcibly    a rushed entrance into me       his fingers tap-
dance in my nostrils and fool around my scarf

he whispers to the pent-
house of me     freeze
lightheaded and nauseous

I continue to bring
him in

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