Member-only story

Lisa Martens
Dec 2, 2020

--

lucky you don’t have headaches
here’s the first one/count your blessings/tell me when i tell you/you’re lucky you don’t have headaches. Eat the sand of the food dessert/blame the single mothers for living in low-income housing/maybe it’s not the best/but just be grateful you don’t have headaches. They’re going to/stretch it out until January/threaten to shut down and shut you out/but just keep taking your vitamins/filling out your forms/and count your tears on the pillow/and count your fingers and toes/and tell yourself that you’re lucky/lucky you don’t have headaches/not ones you can feel, anyway.

--

--

No responses yet