
“haunted by the...”
Anthony Lucero
haunted by the wings on your back you cut off your breasts
and became a child again. you couldn’t reach your wings or
you would have got at those too. better take them at the
roots or cut off their shoots you couldn’t decide and
neither can i. we held hands and other things too but that
is how it started, me taking your hand. it was of course
the size of a child’s i don’t know how you did it but you
did. magic. you had magic hands and you hated them but
you hated a lot because your wings kept growing things in
you and no one could miss it. the ones that did you loved
the others you destroyed without exception. i tried very
hard to skip the whole thing. but we kept holding hands
and other things too knowing, knowing these things pretty
well you and i. you kept growing and i kept growing and
you cut off what you could until there was nothing left.
i’m not saying you’re to blame i’m saying forgive me as i
forgive you.