'Cause They Were Used
Hand fed
from the time of birth
you nevertheless
turned into a monster
of major proportions
Who woulda thunk it?
I bathed you as a baby
in my own turquoise tub
feeding you flowers stolen
from CVS—
at the front
near the self-checkouts
Nobody noticed,
they were too busy skipping
scanning half their stuff.
When it was orchids
I fed you
you turned so ravenous
it made me afraid.
I dreamt of cutting you
into sections;
searching for the orchids,
selling them back to CVS
at discount
'cause they were used.
Other nights I dreamt
I dropped pieces of you
from a Cessna
500 hundred feet up.
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