Fat Girl Quatern
       

                                  Because no one sees me, I go
to work high. I go there naked.
                                  I go nowhere and upward all
at once. I take my hands and twist

                                  a joint. I grip all my fat rolls
because no one sees me. I go
                                  huge! I stand next to a flower
pot and squat to piss and no one

                                  notices—I'm invisible
to you and you and you and just
                                  because no one sees me I go
along with it. The sky turns black

                                  with it. The trees kill leaves for it.
My nails rip my eyes with it, rip
                                  my tongue. I'm so clawed and I'm stoned.
Because no one sees me, I go.

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