This is Just to Respond. . .

With apologies to William Carlos Williams • James Finn Garner

So you've eaten

the plums

I put in 

the icebox

which I was

(and you knew this)

saving 

for breakfast

This is why 

you have no friends,

this and all the other 

passive-aggressive bullshit. ◊

This piece originally appeared in The American Bystander #4.

James Finn Garner

I

is best-known for Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and his "clown noir" trilogy.

James Finn Garner is best-known for Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and his "clown noir" trilogy.

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