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Patrick Fealey

    My back’s against a brick wall, a camel warming my head as i listen to the buzz of locusts flooding the lot with copper light. a plague of light. inside, they’re cooking up my salvation, a these and those cocktail stronger than any doctor ever saw. a moth flies past with the history of my life written on one wing, the other wing lucid as skin. he is moving too fast, but i catch the drift. there was a time when a thing i mistook for courage flickered before my eyee like a bug caught in a wine glass. i don’t know anything anymore. i can’t find a cause but silence, stillness, ears and ears. the brick wall is cool, my back aches. the nicotine finds the channels. a pizza delivery car goes by. i haven’t eaten. i will not eat. i have to go now, stepping on a butt and into the greeting card brightness. my surrender is prepared.

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