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bedtime stories
This is an artifact of a performance series I did while I was an art student at The University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Ontario, Canada
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woo
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mummy mummy
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adopting memory orphans
And then I remember something that happened when I was a child and I realize it wasn’t me at all. I’m remembering a story someone told me once about their own childhood.
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The Evolution of the Destroyer
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cul-de-sac
they put the kids away like grocerieswhile soldiers rummage rooms for men and moneyfeed them, wordless, on their stomachslooking at the carpets and the mud tracked inafterward they count what’s leftthe crescent crusts, the bruises on their thighsthe calendars on flowered walls, a day crossed offa daya daythen nothing
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when they come for you
first published in Room, issue 45.1, 2022 the air in her house is thickwith yesterday and she saysyou’re growing tall like a womanand clucks her tongue and rustles through the kitchendrawers thick-painted white.cutlery clinks togetheretching scars on surfaces(like the girls in school intheir too close bedsset in rows soyou could see when themen came in…
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but still
smoke lingers on concrete stepsstubbed cigarette before he lefttip still wet from the cleft of his lipskissed, the fire out #poem