by Cole Shuherk
you have options you can make yourself better you can
learn the way out of this,
you have options
you can be bankrupt you
can be in too much pain to ignore
& then they will cure you
you don’t need to impress them
there are pornographic scripts for this
there is cough syrup & candy there are bad magazines,
there is fornication, there is prayer,
there are benzodiazepines, there is
proof, don’t worry,
you have so many options.
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Cole Shuherk is a writer from a flyover state and graduate of Columbia University's MFA program and recipient of the Henfield Prize. His writing has been published in Hobart Pulp, Expat Press, Maudlin House, and others. He contributed to an essay in Harper's. He drives a 1989 Volvo station wagon. He is writing a novel.
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