II.
Late October
and the Norway maple hasn’t turned
red or orange or whatever color
Norway maples turn.
Today
and tomorrow:
an endless cycle of green
and green and green
and green and green.
Through the window
the masochists
slit their wrists,
crying but with bliss.
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Author's note: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come" [Luke 17:1a]. If only they weren't.
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