It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
no clocks in the methadone / prison / rehab just shuffling mealtimes with plastic forks no knives smoke breaks group time et cetera we line up and shuffle szymborska stands on the balcony in a pencil skirt looking out over the row houses maybe all this / is happening in some lab? she asks nurses joke about the methadone as they dole it out they call it cocktails in the med room they stumble cackle aping its effects this shit makes you a zombie and then it kills you I growl my face hard they get real serious apologize no clocks just shuffling the tables always sticky time for crafts! says the nurse keys jangling we line up and shuffle the world doesn’t take flight the way dreams do says szymborska she points me out I am full and loud with dignity
Frances Donovan’s chapbook, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore, was named a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry and interviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Heavy Feather Review, Lily Poetry Review, Solstice, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from Lesley University and is a certified Poet Educator with Mass Poetry. Her first full-length collection is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books. She once drove a bulldozer in a Pride Parade while wearing a bustier. You can find her climbing hills in Boston, and online at gardenofwords.com.
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