No this is not parabola. Hyperbole perhaps. All those lonely L sounds. Fourteen years since I’ve willingly done heroin. Synthetic opioids count on drug panels. We bill extra for buprenorphine.

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by David Greenspan

David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press). He’s a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and earned an MFA from UMass Amherst. His poems have appeared in places like Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Narrative, and West Branch.