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#991080 added March 21, 2021 at 2:15am
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In Michigan
In Michigan

I live in Wisconsin. Don't worry. It doesn't get clearer.

In Michigan I hung upside down
and shoveled the snow
from the ice,
icicles form inside my runny nose.
Eyes water and crystallize.
I skated down hills
in my insulated boots
and on my head
in Michigan. I took walks
while the wind chased
high in the sticks
they call trees. My
tormentor howled, threatened
and sometimes shoved me
in the back.

In hung upside down
Michigan I did.

At night, calm
by the frozen harbor
lonely bells clang,
perhaps in my heart.
Yard lights blind spots
on docks where night shelters
mounds of coal piled high,
waiting, radioactive
monsters about to sneer
with menacing green eyes
come after me.

In Michigan I wait
eight months for summer.
It never comes, in my mind.
There's no place to put snow
after March in Michigan
where I dwell in my head.

Hard to remember,
sitting on the sunny beaches
of Mexico
upside down
with Margaritas sweating the
frosted, stemmed glasses
full of icy concoction
and warm Tequila infused
with blended fruits...

in Michigan, okay! I confess.
I never left.

8.18.20

Got the idea from someone In Texas or On Tumblr...never mind, you wouldn't understand.

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