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Simon Perchik

You still land belly-down
though the mailbox has no key
--what you yank is an envelope

and your hand already in flames
--why now these patrols
waving the children back

while you gag on the gust
and what’s left from your hand
--why only in the rain

then headlong the way each step
moves closer to the sea
becomes those rocks that expect sacrifice

and where you can be found
terrorized by streets boldly in print
yours and theirs, waiting in the open

--you vomit as if its stench
could clog the wound all these years
between one letter and another.

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