LAURIE WELCH


                                     



QUEEN MAB WORKS PART-TIME AT HYVEE




Sometimes she laments that
nobody understands that

there is no such thing as non-jazz.
"Because an epitaph is a receipt," she said.

Meanwhile, the black shard of glamour she had
was a tongue stuck out

of some beak that was white and giant
and rumored

to be a pretend death sweeping
up and in and all over

trapped like a hula hoop
hanging up there with the jokes and the jams.








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