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Green Bulb

Amie Green (writer), Kathy Audrey Sarpi (graphics)

<p>A man leans out to spit thick raindrops stick and slide down glass. A man’s legs are spread too close to your puckered goose skin. A fat raindrop plops behind your lapel, a slippery finger beading on your nape wetting paper skin, it is cold. A man has a too big bag stuffed with […]</p>

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A man leans out to spit
thick raindrops stick and slide
down glass.

A man’s legs are spread too close
to your puckered
goose skin.

A fat raindrop plops
behind your lapel, a slippery finger
beading
on your nape
wetting
paper skin,
it is cold.

A man has a too big bag
stuffed with spring onions
your sensitive eyes gloss
water leaks
from the plated aluminium roof
the room glows
a sickly fluorescent green.