The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
–Richard Brautigan
When you take your pill
it’s like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside of you.
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lost
Richard Brautigan
“where dreams go to die”
The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
–Richard BrautiganDriving through
hot brushy country
in the late autumn,
I saw a hawk
crucified on a
barbed-wire fence.I guess as a kind
of advertisement
to other hawks,
saying from the pages
of a leading women’s
magazine,“She’s beautiful,
but burn all the maps
to your body.
I’m not here
of my own choosing.”