Deception Story
Friends describe my DISPOSITION
as stoic. Like a dead fish, an ex said. DISTANCE
is a funny drug and used to make me a DISTRESSED PERSON,
one who cried in bedrooms and airports. Once I bawled so
hard at the border, even the man with the stamps and holster said Don’t
cry. You’ll be home soon. My DISTRIBUTION
over the globe debated and set to quota. A nation can only
handle so many of me. DITCHING
class, I break into my friend’s dad’s mansion and swim in
the Beverly Hills pool in a borrowed T-shirt. A brief DIVERSION.
My body breaking the chlorinated surface makes it,
momentarily, my house, my DIVISION
of driveway gate and alarm codes, my dress-rehearsed
DOCTRINE
of pool boys and ping pong and water delivered on the backs
of sequined Sparkletts trucks. Over here, DOLLY,
an agent will call out, then pat the hair at your hot black
DOME.
After explaining what she will touch, backs of the
hands at the breasts and buttocks, the hand goes inside my waistband
and my heart goes DORMANT.
A dead fish. The last female assist I
decided to hit on. My life in the American Dream is a DOWNGRADE,
a mere DRAFT
of home. Correction: it satisfies as DRAG.
It is, snarling, what I carve of it alone.
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