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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't}
  anjali khosla mullany


I hate cereal.
It is disgusting.
It looks like the sort of thing horses eat,
or rabbits, or cats or dogs.
Milk is repugnant.
It squirts out of an animal’s sagging breasts
into our eager, pornographic mouths.
It is too white and too creamy.
The only thing normal there is to drink is water.
I have never had an ex-boyfriend.
But that is okay because I am only five years old.
I know some girls my age who have boyfriends,
but I don’t know any who have ex-boyfriends.
The girls I know who have boyfriends are braggarts.
They are also, usually, blonde.
I do not have blonde hair.
I am from American Samoa.
If you have a problem with that, I will cut you.
I will burn down your house and dance on the ashes.
You can’t fuck with people from American Samoa.
You can’t even find American Samoa on the map.