By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 19 August 2000
Screaming in My Sleep
we are in your bed with inches between us
that might as well be the Rio Grande
an indolent sidewinder between you in Mexico
oblivious to the danger
and me in Texas
antsy and at the ready
fingering the trigger
of a loaded
gun.
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