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The Amazing Headless Chicken-Wire Girl

Kyle Hemmings

When sex was as easy
as the surplus of national poultry
you’d come over every Tuesday
visit me in my post-Sartre gloom
turn my soft-water room flat
into a coop of jokes
about being at the bottom
of the pecking order
& feathers that would always
make me sneeze
or curse Zola.
You’d even incubate a thought
in my head whenever i told you
that girls like you
waiting by rail tracks
for a cheap decapitation
are dime a dozen.
Nowadays, whenever i think about you
i find an egg on my tongue
& my days are runny
filled with guilt
but an abundance of rich egg yolk.
If i could find you,
i’d thank you,
the insemination
of your memory,
clean and bloodless,
has really cut down
on my grocery bills
& i don’t even need
to get tested
for Salmonella.

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