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The Gift

Victoria Hunter

Candy-stripe wallpaper
bloody red carpet
My cat put one paw in
and backed out

Never try to settle a fight in there

Honey I think the room was made
after someone worked too hard
to get the kink out of their hair
without pulling some of it out

Of course it has a mirror
but little enough to belong
to a child’s play vanity

But honey there is no damn handle
to hold the unused toilet paper

Were they too poor to not have that either?

Sorry honey I can’t say anything
really nice about it
twice again today I reached for its handle
and it wasn’t there

Just before I called you I thought
I could make one with a co-hanger
I promised to keep the instructions to myself
and to try not to think it loudly
just in case the Illuminati really exist

 

this was Published by Conceit Print Magazine 2019

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