Alice in Rehab

9 08 2008

They give me a pill
to shrink me — to thin
the sag and wrinkle,
to quiet the cat
that curls its tail
through the folds of
my brain, to dull the fact
that entropy means

I am

an expanding

gap.

I take another pill —
from a stash of pearly
white teeth
hidden under my pillow —
to make me forget
I need the first.

by Christopher Hennessy

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3 responses

10 08 2008
Jo

Excellent….really well done; I particularly liked: I am an expanding gap.

10 08 2008
nathan1313

Yeah, this one has it all. Great imagery, line layout, rhythm.

12 08 2008
Eshuneutics

Precise, edgy free-verse…and finely read too.

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