Fine Flu Journal Fine Flu Journal- june 2014 | Page 6

rhetorics, or rhymes
– no more

Language of Sharp Objects

Languishing in desuetude
Scintilla of smooth, or youth, dulling.

Are you still right-handed? Because I can
make the onion fall to the right…

There are shopping carts
Whisked away in corners

Among stubborn standees,
Shelf-talkers. These marketing geniuses

Tongue-tied, stunned
By their own expectations

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