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The cuckoo is a trash bird. It puts its eggs in other birds’ nests and peaces out, like, whatever. Cuckoo does what it wants, which is eat all your fruit then get up in a clock and make out with the gears. You pretend not to care but it hurts. And while you cry in the bathroom, cuckoo “borrows” your car doesn’t come home till dawn smelling like weed with a long scratch on the hood. Your friends don’t come around now, your mom cut you off cause you spent the money she gave you for rent to feed him, but they don’t see how huge and fat and hungry hungry hungry cuckoo is how soft how big his eyes, shiny with tears how he needs you and so you say okay, even though cuckoo’s big body crumples your furniture, squeezes you cramps you until your breath is shallow and so you keep double-time hoofing it to love this swollen baby in your nest.
Maureen Thorson is author of three collections of poetry: Share the Wealth (Veliz Books 2022), My Resignation (Shearsman Books 2014), and Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, On Dreams, is newly out from Bloof Books. She lives in Falmouth, Maine. Visit her at maureenthorson.com.
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