Kerri Shying R - # 361 - Venus

Venus

you got disease fatigue  I say 

that face

 today I told you

I got one more   to add  

another on the pile

 of brooding   knick knacks

ripped from dictionaries

Ripley’s

 Believe It or Not with

an emphasis  on

 more often than

not  

 I get more positive tests

 than negative

go figure             the

spaces between them

shrink  I love it

when something common

hoves into view

I see in the paper rich

people put

died of a rare

cancer

like the ordinary one

was just

passé

there are ants in my bed 

I withhold   the fact that I’m

allergic  say aren’t we all

risking death 

this earth

a blue and umber

death trap

come to bed

get bitten

come die

 in someone’s arms