Unquiet Youth
Matthew Klane

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Unquiet Youth           Undiluted.

Unruly.

Uncouth.

You—

were born

on Easter Island,

to a coughing

fit,

vertigo,

a flittering

flirt w/ the nurse.

Lyric triste’s

pickled Hyacinth—

Goo.

 

  The Petite Bourgeois           You won the lottery.

You bit

the bitter fruit.