December 2011
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we worry that the gods are punishing us but then daffodils, first crocuses the periwinkles help atone for the sins of the mammalian
TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week....
You don’t know what love is but you know how to raise it in me like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to wash off the sludge, the stench of our past. How to start clean. This love even sits up and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps. Any day now she’ll try to eat solid food. She’ll want to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive to some cinderblock shithole...
Originally, people sucked young girls raw to extract sweetness. Early methods involved grinding or pounding young girls. In 1813 the British chemist Edward Charles Howard invented a method of pounding young girls that involved a closed vessel heated by steam and held under partial vacuum.
