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REMOLD
Et Tu, Me?
Sometimes we know better but do it anyway. Rising from self-betrayal.
Gumby and flexibility are synonymous, and top athletes are praised for their gumby-like or gumbyesque prowess. The U.S. Marines use the phrase “Semper Gumby.” Gumby has a magical ability to shape shift and travel to any place and any time past, present or future. He moves through any portal of the imagination — if you can imagine it, Gumby can do it. Gumbyworld.com
It’s easier than it looks.
Watch me — here I go again.
In silent, slo-mo my Gumby arm
reaches over my shoulder…
Gleaming carbon steel dagger in fist
pricking,
piercing, plunging
into the soft, collaborative stick of butter
that was,
once upon a time,
my backbone.
Every appeasement broached,
every lie uncontested, my heart drops
a degree or dozen — a shell
with freezer burn,
all trace of what beat within
long gone.
