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"Line" & "Real" by Nolcha Fox



Line


Not drunk, he walked between the spaces, spaces where the faded yellow line would stutter, change its mind, begin its job of separating bad from good, from here and there. No cop could stop the fault he felt was his, a fault, a quake that waved the faded yellow line, he thought it drunk the way it wavered down the road that stopped at nowhere good, that faded yellow into good intentions gone the wrong side of the empty road.



Real


Nothing is real. What he really sees is nothing but happenstance. Reality

is a tourniquet wrapped around a pile of empty coffee pots. Reality is a tourniquet wrapped around a bag of frozen peas. Frozen peas don’t stop the pain. Any pain is better than staring at nothing. Any pain is better than wrapping happenstance into a coffee pot and stuffing it into a frozen bag of peas.




Nolcha’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net. Editor for Open Arts Forum, Chewers & Masticadores, Garden of Neuro. Accidental interviewer. Fake news faker.

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