What We Lost in the Swamp by Grant Chemidlin

Author:Grant Chemidlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE SOMETIMES-JEALOUS GUY

I am so mad at you when I wake up from this dream

that I want to scream, that I want to shake you from your deep

& distant slumber to demand some semblance of an answer.

How could you? How could you sit in that dark sailors’ bar

with my nemesis & laugh (LAUGH) at all his useless starfish

jokes? How could you go behind my back & massage

his meaty calves with all your strength? Did you forget that that’s

our thing? That all those young & impressionable seashells

were watching? How could you? How could you let his disgusting

crab claws pinch your perfect speckled cheeks? I won’t

believe it. My lying eyes: You, putting down your spaghetti

to stand & check his head for lice. Is there anything

more intimate? Or how about next, when you together

started naming all the mice that scurried by?

Fiona. Mr. Billy. Wet Willy. Princess Di.

No, no, of course, I’ll never say out loud that I’m

a sometimes-jealous guy. It’s just my mind, it runs quite wild,

being blessed (but also stricken) with this vast (& sometimes rash)

imagination.

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