by Dustin Cole
Let’s love each other sincerely
I haven’t been laid in years
I live like a monk
I get drunk all the time
Like a monk and
Imagine myself as someone
And as someone
Each a little demonhead
Each and each
There are few words now
There is no use
Closing the metaphor
You were born
To be unborn
To be untied
Which sounds so much
Like something else after
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Dustin Cole is the author of two novels, Notice (Nightwood Editions, 2020) and Run the Bead (Soyos Books, 2023), as well as the poetry collection After Sunstone (Farthest Heaven, 2025). He lives in Alberta.
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