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Fluffernutter

self-portrait as a sandwich

By Joe NastaPublished 5 years ago • 1 min read
Fluffernutter
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Suck the calcium straight out of my bones’

//////// molten skeleton puddled on the tile

across from the grocery store deli, an ent

//////// ire gallon of two-percent milk.

Crush my body into a sandwich

///////// or a light snack, not salty but sweet.

Where I expect yellow or brown I blanch

///////// white, white, whiter than sourdough.

Instead of blood I melt into marsh

//////// mallow fluff, creamy peanut butter.

Cut my crust, slice me into smaller

//////// versions of what I was before.

///////////////// I promise not to satiate any desire.

//////////////// I’ll leave myself half-eaten.

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Joe Nasta

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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