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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Three Poems, Three Stanzas Each

 By Jem Ashton


Good Bird

Tangled between lines

I say to myself good bird


What was meant to be girl

almost became boy


blurred 

and was bird instead


For my dentist, I am so

Sweet candy

you say I’m good


You can see I’m flossing

and indeed that’s what this is


Flossing for you

and I will not stop my flossing


For the job you want

Dressed

alone in my apartment


Straight up and down

chest to thighs, flat


What do you want to be

        and I wish I could say dentist


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