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I’ve Been Trying to Think

A.J. Huffman

of ways to kill
myself with a flip flop.
This is Florida, after all,
and I am tired
of my life, this rain,
and the game of daily monotony
I am supposed to call existence.
The sad rubber
sandal seems to mirror
my mood. So many of the single
slip-ons found lacking
partners, abandoned on highway
medians or floating along shorelines.
These misplaced survivors mourn,
so effectively, in silence. The suicides
of their other halves, echoing
around them, a permeating darkness.
I imaging our link becoming more
tangible, a covert touch, transcending
distance, a slight nudge that slips, trips
me into suddenly violent
end.

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