Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nineteen
Spring 2009
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One Relative?
Travis Kellogg

Good ol' Esther, stacks socks in my second dresser box
God bless her except she needs to shave.
Part mean, and part helper elf although
she'd weep the shelf clean of Uncle Dick's
weapons that he gave to the children,
"behave!!," and then killed them.
Slippery when damp held shivelry in stamps that I sent out,
beat spilled out of the drums and the bevelled
echoes hum to settle until we let go of the dumb ugly neck-hold.

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