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Don't Write Anything Above It

Don't Write Anything Above It

Published Jan 29, 2024 Updated Jan 29, 2024 Culture
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Don't Write Anything Above It

I read once

that in the centuries before

home refrigerators were invented

it was apparently routine

to throw a frog

in milk,

in the milk jug,

so it would not sour.

 

Or sour as fast.

 

Because of some secretion

on its skin,

how they managed to figure that out, I wonder.

 

A live frog

into the milk.

 

I imagine it

sitting,

staring into the distance,

green,

not understanding,

reflecting on its stupid life,

in the white darkness,

or not even that much.

 

Just thinking

He should call someone, thinking

not his father though, thinking

he should take out the recycling bin, thinking

 

I should be sleeping, thinking,

 

why can’t I fall asleep again, thinking,

what is this noise in my head, thinking, what am I, thinking,

why am I so misunderstood, thinking, I

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