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SS Girlfriend

Kyle Hemmings

Your SS Girlfriend with the sleek belly &
gorgeous scars from ripping off Avenue A
dealers has you on a leash of short-term
amnesia. You can’t recall the last time you
got off from being trigger-happy inside her
& you formed an post-Expressionist impression
of a barbed soul. You could go crazy counting
the nights that border on Nordic numbness,
reindeers dying in a child’s eyes, a hit & run
on 7th ave. South. When she calls you don’t say
what the fuck, where you’ve been? Something inside
you trembles like a victim, and you ask where & when.
You curse the rain.
  At the university cafe,
she shows you a new tattoo from the place on St. Mark’s
open until 3 a.m. She hits you up for some paper
tongue because there’s a new drug rumored to cure
the virus called living by numbers. It’s fatal
but so is being born, she says with a smile
that tangles up your peek-a-boo soul & leaves
you misty for your father’s polyester suits
before he came down with a rare strand of
sleeping standing UP. Tonight, after a frenzy
of unsafe sex, in a hotel owned by an ex-captain
of steely eyes, she sings you an old lullaby
the very one her grandmother once sang when
your girl’s SS eyes were too baby doll blue
for this world. And the two of you collapse
into each other’s jack box, the night taking
no prisoners, only the half-shadows by the
fireplace, only the soft flickering
against the walls.



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