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mall scene, lexington

By Serena Devi

a very old man in a camo baseball cap moves through fayette mall like the last monkey among machines  a mortal before the multicolored pantheon of waifish models leering from the forever 21 storefront  he is an artifact, a rusted axe blade jammed in the gears of a woodchipper  girls in tiny fringed shorts slither around his legs like snakes with plexiglass fangs        when he was a boy he watched his father break a runt puppy’s neck, tell him mercy was a bone shard severing the spinal cord so quick and clean                    he was a god once, his kind   now a stout brown woman’s errant stride knocks his walking cane askew                things weren’t supposed to change like this, all at once like a rug pulled from beneath his feet.

 

Serena Devi is an eighteen-year-old poet and screenwriter from Lexington, Kentucky. She plans to study journalism at NYU in Fall 2016.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue Two

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