By Michael H. Brownstein
When Christmas day dawned, there were no Christmas trees, no gifts, no cookies, no glasses of milk—only small plastic bags of meth.
It’s Christmas, she told her companion. Get up. Let’s see what Santa sent us.
Wow, her friend said, take a look at all this meth.
Then he heard a scream. Turning quickly, he saw her staring into a mirror. A mirror? They never had a mirror. What’s wrong?
My teeth. They’re back. They’re back.
And the meth degraded into water.
| Copyright © 2022 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
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