Issue
#4

July
2009

a poem by Paul Hellweg

Obsessive-Compulsive Fingernail Disorder

I keep one,
that special one,
neat and trim
and filed daily.
it hasn’t been inside
anyone's pussy
in a long, long time,
but it has its dreams,
and I do too,
and the strangest thing is
I can never get it just right.
it might be smooth here,
but not there,
and never everywhere
all at once,
never perfect,
never
without
either
hangnail edges
or
unrequited
lusts.

© Paul Hellweg

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