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Unsolved Mysteries in Scatology

Kyle Hemmings

If I showed her a photo
of myself ten years before
she wouldn’t see the background
behind the background
nor comprehend how I craved pussy
but drowned in the echo of romance.
She would only see me & three buddies,
my long hair & heroic smile
& not the girl I had stopped writing.
We grew too many miles apart.
I narrowed my vision
to the meat and potatoes
the exact science of scatology.

I’m in this hotel room
facing the N.Y. Times building
fucking a Spanish drag queen
who has breast implants
that taste like black licorice,
soft as a California peach
by the time it reaches a starving boy.
Her anus is as snug as the keyhole
of my thoughts that lead out of the past.

And what you don’t see in this picture
is that in another year
this same drag queen
was beaten to death
in the same hotel room
by a guy with angel tattoos
on his chest and arms
who mistook her for a woman
or wanted to believe she was.
You might say his vision was narrow.
& as far as echoes go—
I never knew her real name.

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