misfortune_cookie
raze it came a long way to get to you

through three-hundred-and-fifty-degree heat
on a flat metal pan

through kraft paper
and bubble wrap

through days that thought
they'd never end
and nights that hoped to live
a little longer

through customs
through dirt and concrete
through humidity
thick enough to choke on

through the distance between then
and the strange city
that calls itself now

and
it's stale
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...
unhinged a_praying_mantis
needs the protein snack
of her lovers head
to make the babies
of the next generation
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from