bad jigsaw

1. man on acid who thought he was an orange and peeled himself

if you didn’t have a neck you would look funny and I would laugh at you

like how much symptomatic decay before

brief stay in hospital

                                                                                                    I am wearing sunglasses
                                                                                                    it looks like ‘holiday’ to me

2. remark on the very blue sky

 

still talking about the man and his peeling
a knee-deep obsession

                    currently

                    I am in danger

everyone is actually someone else

maybe one day I can cry out a small plump baby 
straight into a suit of armor

if that’s not symbiosis
I don’t know what is

 

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Florence Heap's work has been published in Icarus Magazine and Smithereens Literary Magazine. One chapbook, Cow Baby, is published by LotsLotsLots press. She is less mysterious, more shy.