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It’s Hard to Tell Who Will Love You the Best
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Outside the smoking & beard-burdened trees—& always again, it is winter

Always again children streak into traffic, & again, and always, I’m decapitated

 & feel                                   as though                       someone is lip-tracing

The zippers of my self-inflicted bites               & it is true—the only thing I can

Fully understand about sickness is a tractor dragging a stolen ATM machine

Down main street         Or a body              flinging           itself    

From a train bridge          & the sparks          Lightswirl             & the sparks  

This is all about hunger, I said to the man next to me in the waiting room

Pointing at the bruises        Jesus Christ, he said, you should have seen it crawl

Back & beg                    Even after we’d dropped cinderblocks on its face

                            & here you are                           You are right fucking here  
 

& the sparks                 Here                          & the sparks
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By: Alex Lemon
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Alex Lemon's first collection of poems is Mosquito (Tin House Books). Hallelujah Blackout will be published in the spring of 2008 by Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as Open City, BOMB, Kenyon Review, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Gulf Coast and Pleiades. He is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review, and co-editor of LUNA. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. A memoir of his is forthcoming from Scribner.  He lives digitally at alexlemon.com.
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