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Diagnostician’s Note

Some are learned
in the ways of panting.

Some leather gestures
wail.

You are a student of your own body:
Pleasure the selected photograph.

Derive the side-table.
She can’t stand

In her obstinate
obstinacy.

–– is bleeding
From the bedroom.

Ask me:
What constitutes a victim
-less crime?

Nothing is benign when laced
within your spinal warfare.

You are not immune

To conceptual frameworks. Not even
The ones that bring out

Your eyes.

 


“Diagnostician’s Note” originally appeared in Mudroom Magazine. 


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