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what to do

Nathaniel Sverlow

A man gets stabbed at the Pour House
because his pants were too tight

I don’t know how he got away,
but he did,
limping and bleeding into the Press Club
a couple blocks away

and they took him to the ER
where the nurses and the doctors all wore crosses

and they looked at the blood
at the pants
at the pale face
blinking in and out of consciousness

“Well, are you?”
they said, thumbing their crosses

“I ain’t no fag!”

“What about these pants, then?”

“I already told you.”

And, the man fell forward
landing hard
they could not revive him
to ask him again

and the blood spread
out from under him
and they thumbed their crosses
and looked at one another

they didn’t know
what to do

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