diary of a false assassin

it starts with love, or a lot of like
he’s crazy cute, right?
he’ll say anything to make you let him

it takes you by surprise
even though you know how it works
hoping it wouldn’t ≠a plan to prevent it

you don’t tell anyone
then you tell everyone

have it, don’t have it
here’s the number of the clinic
i’ll drive you, myself
it’s out-of-state

if you don’t have it, you’re a murderer
puzzle of the day: if that thing in your stomach
has no brain and no heart, why is it more
important than you?

because you have no value
except to bear things

you’re an incubator
an earthen vessel

an now, with a thought to your
own future, a killing machine
a false assassin

 

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Anne Leigh Parrish is an award-winning author of fourteen books. Her work has won many honorable awards such as: 2021 Story Circle Sarton Award Finalist 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner 2020 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List 2020 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention, General Fiction Category 2017 Maxy Awards, Best Fiction Winner 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Anne Leigh Parrish’s new novel, The Hedgerow, appears in July 2024 from Unsolicited Press. Diary of a False Assassin, her next poetry collection, will arrive in December 2024, also from Unsolicited Press. Recent titles are A Summer Morning, a novel; An Open Door, a novel, and If The Sky Won’t Have Me, a poetry collection. She is the author of ten other books. She has recently ventured into the art of photography and lives in the South Sound Region of Washington State. Find her online at her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. Explore her photography at www.laviniastudios.com.

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