the bloodstained clothes
that just wouldn’t wash out (just
like cranberry juice spoken of
by p. bateman), the watered
down t-shirt contests (precursor
to mardi gras), the hair drenched
in the shower (humans looking
like drowned rats in the streets),
the wool coats worn in the rain
that no one remembered to take
off (now shrinking! now
shrinking!), the little girl’s bear
that got thrown in...
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