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Flat-chested Girl from the NGO
by Tom Healy

Know that she
has the advantage here

she could quicken somebody’s blood

and her nose is pierced
with a little diamond
it glints –

a flare, spark, feather
of eroticism floating above
what she says and
says she knows

and she has a jeep
she sees a road

sees me
only as a shadow
around a beer

an unshowered attitude
tipped back
in a molded-plastic chair
watching

three frantic cockroaches
map the wall
behind her head

wishing she’d kick
the chair out from under me

something

to compensate
for her over-sized tee-shirt
the glib, presumptuous faith

her ergonomic
backpacker sandals

wishing
she’d stop believing and
jump up and cuff me
with the back of her hand

rise and burn
with some gorgeous, sudden
diamond fury

spitting down rage
on a brokenness
that flourishes
beyond our knowing

and nothing

we can do
but trouble it
sometimes beautifully