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Suburban Juggernaut

Mónica Jiménez

2014

Your blood erupts. Skin

and skull shatter

 

– a fatty mist.

Women poised ready for battle, now

broken and gathered under a wheel.

Suburban scandal, small

 

-town gossip:

murder-suicide leaves two dead, one injured.

Old taste of metal on my tongue,

grey smear in my hand.

Your smiling teeth a necklace

choking me while I sleep.

Rights: Mónica Jiménez

Spanish translation coming soon