Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nine
Winter 2005
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Have your bacon and eggs, have your toast
Rebecca Loudon

You're right, of course,
I hurt myself on purpose,

visit houses where you live,
your ghoulish Avon Lady,

your Mormon missionary,
your own personal Watchtower,

cower on the porch
ready to take you to Heaven,

hunt the rooms in which you sleep,
crouch behind the door,

the privet hedge, peep through
the eyeholes carved in the goose

in the gingham dress.
I have no shame

and sometimes I do.
I bolt out of bed on fire

every Monday morning, drag
half the lake to find you.


About Rebecca Loudon

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