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Mishandled

A.J. Huffman

Scrambled eggs and beer.
Breakfast for the dead,
and the walking hung-
over. My body screams
like a bruise. I am swimming
in open air, a slug, moving
at its most accelerated pace,
which is comically slow.
The coffee pot laughs at me.
It is empty. My passport
to potential survival lacks. Water
and beans wedge themselves
inside their respective restraints,
glitter like pearls,
clamped between feral clam’s
teeth. Overreaction is inevitable.
I shatter myself on the cold,
kitchen floor.

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