if I seem nervous
it's because I've done this before
once, my father cut all of my fingers off
before tossing me into the sea
the seals refused to eat me
said I tasted too much like home
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he’s a muthafuckin’ star boy
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space mermaids
Jupiter only cries on Fridays when she can see the split moons and frozen rocks spit past her eyes-she has seen other worlds spin around her waist drawn to inter-changing belts light up messages say
stay away come closer stay away
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paid in full
I have three coins in my pocket
one for my mother
one for my grandmother
and the last for me
in the story-I’d put them over
cold faces closed eyes
pay the ferryman for the ride
my mother must have hitchhiked
not the first time
my grandmother didn’t want to leave
she’s holding onto gravestone with her thin nails
accepting fake flowers as tribute
side by side with the man she loved then hated then loved again
the ground is too cold here to bury me
nothing melts glacier ice
and so I wonder if I walk out
until I can only see snow from horizon to horizon
until my footsteps have gone
all but one
will the snow swallow me
slowly bury this body
close to plague sufferers
dead Russians
and polar bear bones
I could haunt the wave-dark seas
pester whale hunters or softer grandmothers
listen to oceans inside the chests of great beasts
rest when spirals cease
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the legend of billy and his band of merry men
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i could eat this world up
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