Friedrich Kerksieck and Aaron James McNally

Snakebite #7

There are ten wolves
in that python.

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Tongue-Twister

If you repeat "I am a merkin"
it sounds like "I am American."

*

"What an insincere premonition,"
the ghost goads you. He has
a necktie but no neck. "Indecent
living" was by motto when I was
a young sheet, barely even yet
dead," the ghost shakes his
head & the petite chandelier shakes
with him. The ghost needs
to ask you a favor, to borrow
your car & water the plants
while away on business vacations.
He swallows a spill of water
& slinks back into your favorite
sweater.

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The Prestige Opiates
      dance with the
      girls
in the sequence of
      innocent love
The milk-man paperboy
      sleeps w/ the wives
of the patrons just
      mentioned above

Aaron James McNally is a Master's candidate at the U of Northern Iowa. His first book of poetry, Out of the Blue, is available from Caveworks Press. His reviews and criticism have appeared in Rain Taxi and The Cream City Review. He lives in Evansdale, Iowa and edits lament (http://www.lamentmag.blogspot.com/).

Friedrich Kerksieck tries to live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Other postcard poem collaborations with AJM have appeared through Pilot Books, Effing Magazine, 6X6, & a couple other venues. He is the sole provider for Small Fires Press, which prints fancy letterpress stuff (htttp://www.smallfirespress.com).