apesie’s suitcase
it was a giant suitcase i thought i might bring my brother
home in it would have been prefect for his ashes but they
went missing many moons ago
stuffed into a Florida closet mouldering +amazing grace
gators in the pond outside could smell him +their mournful
honks could be heard at Mar-a-Lago where a crass man sat on gold toilets
i don’t know if i might have saved him i did try to bring him home
so his mama could lay eyes on her jilter’s face one last time my bro
the spittin image of his rake father Charlie the Liar Hearted
Hanna had a suitcase too inside she kept her grandmother’s bones
spirited out of Auschwitz there have been other famous suitcases too
Dorothy’s packed full of unlived munchkin dreams much like my own
and many a mobster’s packed full of chopped up corpses dirtymoney
+the ingredients to whip up a wicked pasta e fagiol my mother too
had a smart leather model’s case packed with cigs lipstick +innocenza
Freda’s suitcase
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Winter 2026 ..waiting for Aviva..אביב 🌸
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