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August 28, 2020 Poetry

Sixteen Hike

Tyler Barton

Sixteen Hike photo

Please cc my soul
on every email
you send me

 

Please be cool
to my hedgehog
he has an ego

 

Please lift my arms
when you declare
me the winner

 

Please give me
permission to
smite myself

 

Please bury me
like dogs
in warm laundry

 

Please tell me
the stamen is
the dick bit
of the flower

 

Our flu ruined
Christmas sorry
I reminded you

 

Send me home
with please at least
my homework done

 

Remember this
thrice-googled tree
for good please

 

Please forget I was
ever mature was
ever found to be
compassionate

 

Please forget that
time I was tough
it meant little

 

Please let nests be
please explain me
to the man outside

 

Please make years
not count again

 

What is behind
me, please say it
is not those
mocking gingkoes

 

Please reread
the source code
for my soul

 

Circle the bugs
flag the glitches
one the zeroes

 

 

image: Laura Gill


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