Nicole Mauro

Letter M

1. Morally, we
2. re-
3. treated. Pulled our heads and legs and
4. our feet in
5. and awaited
6. in our shells to be
7. shucked and de-
8. meated.
9. To escape the top
10. of the
11. actual
12. telephone pole. Justification—we needed
13. to believe
14. we’d of been
15. seen,
16. that only a very
17. hard thing
18. could hide
19. such a soft
20. being.
21. “Want is a kernel.” Oh,
22. oh.
23. It’s a big-
24. sized
25. thing, and, fuck,
26. now it wants to make a hole.