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Dragging an Empty Bathtub Through a Desert
by Justin Karcher
Tonight I got a text that said
“When we fuck
It’s like you take me
To a place that’s weird
But cozy
In a haunted way”
That means there’s something missing
Anyway, earlier in the day
I read an article
About this seven-year-old
Who was born without hands
And how she won a handwriting prize
Without the use of artificial hands
That she uses both arms
To patiently pen each perfect letter
She’s a hard worker, a survivor
Of severance
Of the feeling that something
Is missing in your life
So I wondered if these two things
Were related, this girl’s penmanship
And how when I fuck
It’s like I’m conducting a ghost hunt
And then it hit me
Like Ezekiel when the glory
Of the God of Israel
Suddenly appeared before him
I was sitting at a café
On my twelfth cup of coffee
Amped up because I had just watched
Game of Thrones and Jon Snow
Was back from the dead
And he hanged the men who had wronged him