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Mark Fleury

Finger and pen shadow
Always slightly ahead of the ink

Where cocaine, a Coke bottle and perfectly
Clear blue skies are in the same place
On a drugstore shelf.

The mop pail is full

Of saline spray to cleanse the aisles’
Sinuses and to wash off

And clear the manager’s glasses,
Wedding ring and gold front tooth

With the now drenched blonde wig

That he took off of his own head and soaked
In there for over an hour.

But the chemical reaction between the saline and the wig

Has turned everything he scrubs the color of
Windshield wiper fluid, including the clouds
In the bottle on the shelf that, saturated,

Have become a pile of rags on the floor.

Upon closer inspection he sees that they’re really
Three of the blue smocks that his job requires him to wear.

It’s the last thing he sees though because his eyeballs
Have been closed into someone’s prescription bottle

And taken home.



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