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it had only been dead a few hours
there’s so little to do in a hospital bed
the physics of sawing yourself in half
more books from milkweed editions
ALSO BY ALEX LEMON
Happy: A Memoir
Hallelujah Blackout
Mosquito
FOR ARIANE
come sweetly
It starts
The way
It ends—
Fingers of
Impossible light
Crawling
Over your
Face. In
Between—mind-
Less waiting.
Mouth gunk
Or a gunked
Up heart—
Going is just
Climbing
Back inside.
!
Jesus is dead, Marx is dead, Elvis is dead And I’m not feeling too