bufo afterthoughts (march 19)


1.

I am an ancient Egyptian creature

with charcoal leather skin,

blood dripping off my teeth. 


2.

Michael was right. 


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I was a crab under a river rock. 

I was a child trying to find a crab.

The spirit of the river sent the child away. 

I felt disappointment and relief at the same time.


3.

Yoshio is a black lion.


-

I was crimson jaguar

moulded in lava.


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Jaws snapping at stones

of a hungry mountain cat.


4.

Body inverted 

like the inside of a platinum sphere.


5.

I make sounds of an owl,

ready to eat a living prey.




6.

White like no other,

not bright, 

other white.


and red.


7.

I went into the mouth of a starfish.


8.

Slithered through the rocks of small river.

I am a queen snake, milked.




-

I have eaten so much.


-

I will never speak the same.


-

I thought in colors. 


-

Addiction to humans, 

Feeding off of them.


-

I am operating on

another emotional spectrum.


-

My only talent was being lucky

to have had lessons.

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