40mg Omeprazole, Once Daily
he left me
corroded, rust bucket
gut,
diseased:
we’re all falsetto now.
it’s the black plague!
i know F major now,
ammunition too heavy
to carry.
he’s sprawled across bedsheets,
windows,
two blankets, so
leg untouched
leg,
twitching eight counts in REM.
oil spill molars,
bile-lubed joints,
wound
open on the mantle. on the
Tiffany lamp.
half-soldered scraps
turn to mirrors.
check my form in the
cracks,
warped and mangled, phrase
lost
in translation,
in arms and metal and contract and release out
my mouth.
Buzz Kozak is a senior at Purchase College studying playwriting. When not writing for the stage, he writes poetry, which has previously appeared in Dadakuku.