unloCking easy bottles

sinking 2 feet In saNd

mystical coffee beans/ black hOles in the moon

Release coMes in the fOrm of ineBriety when you have
toO many things to say and fRet too much on hoW to say them

liqUeur subterfuGe sometimes
leads to pubLIc phones

ringing up disjOinted numbers

receiver dangling at the first

Brrrrrrng!/ pendulum of yEllow livers

... aNd you wonder out loud if you shouLd notiFy the cops
i say i'm not sCared of crank cAllers, we're all trapPed in how we fEel.

© 2002 Arlene Ang

Arlene Ang is a poet with her first publication in Mocha Memoirs. She lives in Venice, Italy where Ang works as a translator and web designer. Her work has appeared in Dandelion (Can), Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online and Rattle.