I Want to Believe

Published in GutSlut Press Print Edition, Featured in MBP Podcast #38

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I want to believe

that Pluto is a planet 

and Kurt didn’t kill himself.

That Batboy is safe

and the aliens autopsied are immortal,

having risen from the dead right after those grainy pictures were taken. 

That they weren’t taken, 

but flew back to their saucers

and are watching us now, 

communing through static 

and disguising themselves as Bloody Mary.

Waiting for us to turn off all the lights and stare into the mirror, 

cracking eggs on our heads

and letting it all drip down our faces,

summoning 

by the law of three

the end of the world as we know it.

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