darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows

by D. A. Powell

D. A. Powell

darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows
when I'm a meager man. with your exhaust pipe and hose

could you put me out: when I'm a mite a splinter a grain
a tatter a snip a sliver a whit a tittle. habited by pain

would you bop me on the noggin: with a two by four
the trifle of me pissing myself. slobbering infantile: or

wheezing in an oxygen tent. won't you shut off the tank
mightn't you disconnect the plug: give the cord a proper yank

when I lose the feeling in my legs. when my hands won't grip
and I'm a thread a reed a wrack a ruin: of clap and fux and grippe

with your smack connections could you dose me. as I start my decline
would you put a bullet through me. angel: no light left that is mine

-for Sam Witt





Last updated February 19, 2023