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Alison Daniel
The Practice of
AnaesthetizingThe tendency to fabricate an answer is called confabulation which is not the same as reduplication although I remember it didn't matter how similar circumstances were placed side by side like the time you cuddled into my back, said, 'let me warm you', how it always meant sex without seeing your face so you never knew the girl who begged you to stray while I wondered how long it would take to think about playing her against me was perhaps your first mistake. So many alibis smoothed your loose tongue but it wasn't until your frontal lobe flipped out to space that I knew the odds were against you ever telling the truth. |
| Alison
Daniel lives and works in Australia. Her poetry can be
found in August Cutter, Taint, Tryst, Pierian Springs, ibodi and many fine
journals. enail: A.
Daniel |