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Selected Poems<br />
Anastacia Tolbert<br />
The Monsters Guide To Love<br />
a +ghoul is a monster or spirit associated with graveyards and<br />
consuming human flesh.<br />
dearest ghoul<br />
if you hunger enough to eat her flesh let your lips pucker<br />
themselves into her heart if you cannot reach. her. heart. decide<br />
to dextrose her eyes as they are connected to the thing<br />
she calls seeing you. if while you consume her you feel her<br />
bones canary-ed inside your throat release her. but only after<br />
she sings. if while you consume her you feel the bones inside<br />
your stomach push her together/take more of her in.<br />
side with yourself only. nostalgia: desire her spirit & for this—<br />
you need not consume all of her flesh. but you remember<br />
w a n t how it drags itself down the hallways of<br />
your jaws<br />
how it simmers there a cauldron within a cauldron begging<br />
you to add more add more<br />
until the rolling bubbles come.<br />
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