inside the greek district
she was sitting on her ass
between the oven
& lazy susan
the only light in the kitchen
emitting from her
cupped hands
she wasn’t the only
one awake
at this hour of the night
—in fact if you were looking in
from the outside
you’d swear the entire place
was on fire
april two thousand twenty-five
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