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Freddy Amphetamine in Response to Elizabeth Treadwell

locked in the sky

When she saw that he intended to weigh the ransom and that none of his men would be there, the lady, who had a knife, stabbed him in the neck and killed him. She took his head and without difficulty brought it to her husband and told him the entire story and how she had taken vengeance. ​
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                                                   we couldn't sleep


cryogenics was near

the small foldy wings

the rich flunk.



You bring me happy news from the oven

with a cinnamon scent and raisin eyes

with a proxy

and I thought I recognized it

as its own erotic object.



Philosophically speaking,

to be sure,

all the sexual debt

can't be kept forever

at least not on just one neck.

Lucretius says even hell would be better

than all that blood or lush waves of a draft.



At the very least

a currency of wind

some pretty science, a feather in the air

even as the moon is a coin for the whole

but sitting there until it ends


locked in the sky


cold as an eel,

                               without eyelids.


Freddy Amphetamine bears her unfortunate name in California. Most of the italicized phrases above are borrowed from Elizabeth Treadwell's featured piece. The title is a quote from Christine de Pizan and the last italicized phrase is borrowed from Sylvia Plath. 

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