MAYHEM Issue Two – November 2014 ISSN 2382-0322 ______________________________________________________________________________ Rachael Elliott Kali Looks at Facebook Photos of Her Friend’s New Baby One month on the worm has no name they call her baby tiny perfect fingernails carve into her tiny perfect face Kali licks her finger covers it imagines it clicking against the rest around her long red neck They should call her Kali akachan the red one wrap her in a red dress full of pins to draw up her _____________________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright remains with the individual author MAYHEM Issue Two – November 2014 ISSN 2382-0322 ______________________________________________________________________________ white pudgy arm she’ll like it sharp and bloody baby lives in a letter sealed with spit pink booties remove her hands slap her bottom smooth as a dog’s headstone pink strain her through muslin pink double dose of baby ibuprofen down for the night pink cosmopolitan for Kali baby smiles spits at you farts on your arm You never sleep Your breasts empty and cracked _____________________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright remains with the individual author MAYHEM Issue Two – November 2014 ISSN 2382-0322 ______________________________________________________________________________ learn to peel apples in one spinning swathe of skin for eating and Kali lights her durrie toasts the bags under your eyes here’s to your success _____________________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright remains with the individual author
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