Our Spirit Animal Shapes, poem by Amy King

    The nails of an honest masculine hand come
    to grip beer in a bag with porcelain figure mentality
    that others smash across the head
    of a beating body, it’s so impatient of me to lethal
    and legitimize alone time in your closet
    where the evidence is flushed, fondled,
    marveled at in cruel fashion & turned into sculpture
    for therapeutic benefits. Hush the blind finger
    bandit in that drunken abyss,

    I also made some found poems from
    Hurricane Katrina because I really just copied down
    a few quotation marks and broke them into lines
    that abuse the sterile use of deadly events,
    minor or major moments American
    in peril and complete nudity on the big ticket,
    a special economic zone that compounds
    a personal basis for our spirit animal shapes
    to cash in on when you finally come to recognize
    the ways in which you pretend and exist on
    the same plane, where the remaining us lie to sleep.


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