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If this bed is the tracks I’m tied to, you
can’t be lax at this crux of our junction.
You must be able, like a wolf, to smell fear,
to leer like a wolf at the length of my legs.
These are the legs that got me here.
These are the teeth I use to bite you,
or rather used, when I used to bite you,
leaving you bruised in little heart shapes
on your vocal box. What can I say?
Tonight is the happiest day of my life.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. Her most recent books are For You, for You I Am Trilling These Songs and After Robinson has Gone.
Elisa Gabbert is the author of Thanks for Sending the Engine and My Fear of X. She is also coauthor, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness.
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