Chapter 7

After Raymond Carver’s “Bankruptcy” 

Thirty-seven, trick shoulder &
a sultry appetite still (exempt)
I wait for you
impatiently (exempt still) 

listening to the towels tumble
as my hairy belly moans: 

we are rebounds
to true pleasure. 

Forgive us, (I pray in enormity) 
our reckless improvidence. 
Today, my heart, like the front door,
awaits unlocked 
for the first time in years.
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