BETRAYAL
by Ryn Gargulinski
they may have thought
we would take them on a
bicycle ride a trek to the
circus a zip to the zoo but instead
we put them in an ice cube tray – each
bald baby mouse in its own
little cube – each parent, dismayed where
their babies went – atop lean cuisine
pizza beside smashed frozen peas – the
next morning we pulled
out the ice cube tray – found several cubes
empty as a number had crawled – to a lumpy
pinkie clump in one cube – a huddle that had hoped to
stay warm – one frozen mid-crawl on
the lip – his paw grasping at the
the cold freezer
sky.
Poem in honor of pinkies we wrenched away from pet mice to feed lizard Lazlo
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LET DOWN
by Andrew Ulanowski
Betrayal is having
the person
you have fallen
in love with
ask you to review
their ad on Match.com
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