Tipton Poetry Journal – Winter 2021
Cartoon Character Diane Webster The man is a cartoon-channel character chattering away in voices not his own to cover thickly-clad person beneath who obsesses every minor detail to death, to death like hand-painted coyote falling to the desert floor with a boulder flattening him to paper fluttering into a camper’s fire to burn and dive into nearest pond where piranhas rip teeth marks all over his body as he limps down the road only to smash into an ACME truck as TV screen fades to black and again and again we laugh as weary as the coyote as we bare our teeth reflected back in computer screen, a ghost we allow to haunt.
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