curdled

a poem

Ashlan Isadore McHugh

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Photo by Callum Skelton on Unsplash
my tears dissolving 
in a flood of curdled milk
spewing from that mouth
from that bulbous woman
that she-devil spilt-salting
over my left shoulder

that bulbous woman caterwauling
penetrating past my earbuds
of riffs and drums and crunch
and catharsis
which only trickled
for me in the weeks past

that bulbous woman brass-abrasing
loose-jawin'-hem-n-hawin’
scratching louder
than my scratching pen
than my…

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