MAYHEM
Issue Two – November 2014
ISSN 2382-0322
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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
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ISSN 2382-0322
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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
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ISSN 2382-0322
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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
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