Wes Civilz: Can We Blame Her
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Spiderman isn’t supposed to be green,
or yellow, or pink, or purple, but
a pick-up truck full of wrong-colored Spidermen
is definitely barreling down an icy mountain road
in this café, on the screen of that little girl’s cell phone,
as I eat my fried jalapeño
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Can we blame her for her zombie entanglement
with a sleek box that offers only everything,
a tiny rainbowing eidolon of everything
that she ever wanted
that she never knew she wanted
that she shall learn to require
Wes Civilz lives next to a dusty cactus in Tucson, Arizona. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, [PANK], Entropy, and The Green Mountains Review. Please say hello at wescivilz.com.