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Things you toss

Colin Gee

Fourteen beers 2001

Walmart tequila back of mom’s house

Empties into the foliage

Empties from the passenger side window

Your own apartment

thinking mistakenly you still had that wad

Ceviche on the beach in Vallarta

cold sand

legs in white shorts

Lasagna on the gag that choked you

gangbang on a roof

The towel that was for your body

Chicken marbella

bust in your mouth

Cheap icons through a motel window

adios Christ

bye-bye God

Books and Bibles with scrupulous notes

Phones and most recently

Bloody phlegm from the cancer

Food from three days ago

caught in the malfunctioning throat

Bags of trash into the woods

slow down don’t stop

Pizza boxes like boomerangs

Full-grown women

in rooms of their own

Blood from the gums

Unidentified lipstick from a drawer

Dreams color taste.

Colin Gee is the founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette. He is also the author of The Penult from LEFTOVER Books, the novel Lips from Anxiety Press, and Left in the Lurch from Dumbo Press.


Find him @ColinMGee on Twitter, @gegncwide on Instagram, and @colinmgee.bsky.social on Bluesky.

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