Fissures

Let's workshop this bitch!

Fissures

Having interpreted
the molesting hand 
not as uncle 
but as space alien

at least makes you 
feel special 
at Thanksgiving 
dinner tables where,

otherwise, amid
the tearing of flesh 
you would have been 
unable to sit.

*This poem is unpublished

Painting: Roy Thinnes "The Invaders"