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You'll Kick a Flattened Can
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One of these days, too cocky
to take the long way,
you値l stumble again into a place
you wish you had wanted to forget,
a place where you don稚 notice
anything until it starts to stink.
You値l kick a flattened can
into an exhausted condom floating
in a puddle of spit
and think of me.
You値l trip over the bloated carcass of a crow,
its remaining masticated wing
attached tentatively by a single tendon
and wonder how I知 doing.
You値l turn your nose up at
rotting cabbage sprinkled lightly
with yesterday痴 urine and remember
your fist full of my hair.
The sole of your polished shoe will slip
on crumpled words
torn out of context.
You値l kick a crumpled tin of
chewing tobacco against
the side of a crumbling wall,
and I will slither from between the bricks.
It will all come scudding back with
one slap of a rat痴 tail.
Soggy cigarette butts mark the trail
of your sputtering escape, but
eventually you will
walk this way again.
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Writer
Bio
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Toni La Ree Bennett attended the University of Washington (Seattle) where she received her Ph.D. in English. Her written work has appeared in various publications, including Puerto del Sol, Hawaii Pacific Review, Journal of Poetry Therapy, and Viet Nam Generation. Several of her poems were included in the anthology The Muse Strikes Back. Also a photographer, her photographs have appeared in The American Muse, Pierian Springs, and Atomic Petals. She is publisher of Uccelli Press and editor of the online literary publication Branches Quarterly.
tonipoet@uccellipress.com
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