calling card

Rx only 200 Metered Inhalations
contains no chlorofluorocarbons 8.5g Net
albuterol sulfate for tightness

in the chest, it leaves
a little cough

calling card

…………………pump action

toy. Keeps me alive

alvioli in tune…..a disease
called the breath mews, thin
violin strung tone

There’s always a template. I’m used
to this suit.

Fluticasone propionate, a nasal
shower. Scent of Ylang ylang
……….a drying effect.

Before he died the body
in grand disrepair, all systems
failing,
…………………..release ballast.

doctors as substitute father
figures, fuck that

the skin degrades. What we had

I tend to forget

Bathing her with as much tenderness as I
could manage.

her aged skin so fine (she wasn’t
just bragging), mine so rough. Keep

your toes oiled. Ponds, Palmers,’ whatever

and mostly so pissed off

“I will survive!” Hah

……………………………….It’s the very unsettledness
of the air

The air is unhappy now

The dog grows heavy—-we all entertain
parasites

…………and know it.

What is the relationship between the mole
that decorates / disfigures the flesh

and the little earth grubber, dark anemone-
snout

shoveling dirt all her life?

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