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Gum

Brian Looney

    Chew your gum at the petting zoo. Smack it mouth wide, glob pink. Exhale-inflate, a bubble broadening, until it ruptures and weakly slacks, like a wilted, latex drag. Now retract it with gusto and set to work, as a hog to slop.

    You could also quietly chew, wearing eyes of empty, the lower half of your face in repetitive motion. A small and circular rotation, hypnotically meditative, which reveal the dimples in your cheeks. It is calm, of course, but calmness born of blankness. Like the cow to its cud, slowly surveying the box’s walls.

    Or perhaps you are the type who tucks it under, suckles it for hours at a time. Maybe you give it a chew to set the flavor loose, then back it goes into the gums, the pouch you have evolved. You store it like a rodent.

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