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flagellum

Posted by By Michael Arnzen June 29, 2004Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

i saw a worm squirming in place
one side squashed into the pavement
pink, flattened and stuck like tack
the other snaking wildly
as if in pain or panic
a familiar flagellum:
getting nowhere
before my other foot came down

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