Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Fifteen
Winter 2007
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For an Old Address:
        after Koch
Andy Trebing

Desperate after Xmas,
through a warped pane
I watched your lawn sink,
saw rain reveal a stump’s
roots. I was packing.

I left you my
New Order cassette,
my growlite in your
bomb shelter.
That was accidental.

From above, you are
only one tooth in
the dog’s snarl
that is the place I
am most truly from.

There is no English
word for “fuck you,
House,” so I have hoped
each tornado would unscrew
you, lift you, would spread you
like dandelions.

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