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From Stephanie S. Garcia

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"Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite"

seeming swinging, yet clinging to life

left dreaming, hanging off the side of the mattress

about the 6 inch blade on the hunting knife

and worrying, concerning myself with the cookies wlf

peering down from my shelf

with all the stupid little things that you said

things like, you shouldn't bring your pretty trick ponies to bed

oh, and, do you need to be watered and fed?

why don't you tell me what it means

how these things right or wrong meet at your seams?

why don't you show me, no, tell me just how you feel

like it would be so easy for me to break the safety seal

a reason for the seal, my life on hold for the passing seasons

or two, while it was waiting on  and on you

bleeding out, dying, skins turning blue

now the rescues, half-hearted and few

what a pitiful lifeline you so righteously threw

the mattress again, a most unoriginal sin

the lost soul to win

you sink crossing the infamous river

take cold and shiver, it's time to deliver

and the room, spinning now, I let go of the side and wander down the halls of how

how, the blade, much sharper now,

susie wears red and she say, I'm afraid

what an intricate, albeit cliched be I have made

the goose, with its down, stuffed around the coils

sticks her head from the box springs

before the bedroom floor she soils

awkwardly, easing its featherless body from underneath

wings of skin spread, beating furiously against the sheets

miss spider, you are crafty and look lovely in books

but you lie and then bait a mean, rusty hook

you are laughing as you sew, at this untimely mingle

at all these clinging singles

things still, curious beings

you stare with your many eyes, seething

we share the same place of rest, she jests

your hair is a mess,

surely you do confess?

do I look fat in this fly dress?

she has obviously forgotten how to eat her guest

sticky, salty, sultry cricket's song

let go, it's harder hanging on

devoured once and then I'm gone

 

Stephanie S. Garcia

August 13,2004 

 

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