Some Say by Maureen N. McLane

Author:Maureen N. McLane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Seal Cock

When you said

seal cock

I heard seal talk.

Frozen stiff

four dozen packed in a box

in the ice-cream meat truck

in the Arctic.

Open the box:

it was inarguable

what they were.

You tossed them

to the dogs

who loved them.

A vegan here

you concede

you’d eat meat

& white bread all year

up north.

No way

not to eat what you have to

and live if not like it.

The relativity

of pests:

how I felt

about you

fifty minutes into

a call that while

not deeply annoying

was truly boring

The deer that first appeared

a dark mass

against a distant tree

resolved into a beauty

of dun fawn

the long-tuned elegance

of an ancient body

now riddled with ticks

O there are too many

& we must cull

we will shoot humanely

what’s excessively

about to wipe

us or our friends

out but let’s wait

on killing

sentiment

gets its moment

here before the gun

the archaic click

of a phone back on the hook

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