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Teaching Jen To Make Me



   


I am a corn man
Not a boy holding scissors
On an iceberg.
I am holding a horn man
As I make fuel from corn.
I wet the wipe
And suds my stench
From the heart
Of this blind man.
I am not a train,
I remove chorizo from the glands
Made by human,
An actual person
With breast, penal sac
Inflamed thyroids
A moon on their cleft.
I am groomed
Planted on the avenue
A louse on the king’s hair.
I give myself the belt
Gladly crying into the hot pan.
I photoshop Christ,
Making children vanish.
I fly donkeys over West Texas
I am man, sans a tree
Growing through my head.
This is everything
I can teach you about
Myself, Jen.








Timothy Michalik is from Michigan and publishes Copenhagen and Food. They are the author of Picaresque (Press Break, 2025) and live between Chicago and New York.