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The End of the West - Michael Dickman
Nervous System
Make a list
of everything that’s
ever been
on fire—
Abandoned cars
Trees
The sea
Your mother burned down to the skeleton
so she could come back, born back from her bed, and walk around the house again, exhausted
in slippers
What else?
Your brain
Your eyes
Your lungs
*
When you look down
inside yourself
what is there?
You are a walking bag of surgical instruments
shining from the inside out
and that’s just
today
Tomorrow it could be different
When I think of the childhood inside me I think of sunlight dying on a windowsill
The voices of my friends
in the sunlight
All of us running around
outside our
deaths
*
Someone is here
to see you
again
Someone has come a long way with their arms out in front of them like a child
walking down a hallway
at night
Make room for them—
they’re very tired
I wish I could look down past the burning chandelier inside me
where the language begins
to end
and
down
Scary Parents
I didn’t shoot heroin in the eighth grade because I was afraid of needles and still am
My friends couldn’t
not do it—
Black tar
a leather belt
and sunlight
Scary parents
They filled holes
all afternoon
then we went to the movies
*
The shit-faced gods swam upstream inside them and threw wild parties
and stayed up
all night
Under their tongues
between their toes
their stomachs
All over their arms
wings
did not descend to wrap them up like babies
As promised
Still
there is a lot to pray to
on earth
*
Everyone is still alive
if not here then
someplace else
Climbing out of their