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Deer Prayer

by: Willow Kang


Juliette, you shared rock candy with the children today,

scattering them on the playgrounds,

skipping like Hebe, deriding graduation hats

At night you return home, crashing on euphoria,

crying neon tears, your favorite things that have all gone

to the children

Carve a noh mask with rose thorns.

they come to you to pray for rogue and lead,

leaving behind trails of botulinum when you stop answering

Oh Juliette, you fatten the hopefuls for slaughter

on the rooftops of Las Vegas

yet this is a world of promises & I can only watch

from atop the moonlit chandeliers

the treachery you bestow on these starry-eyed deer


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