How to Cover All Your Bases in the dark, cover yourself with coal and try to disappear. Bring a flashlight to spot the field with a diamond not worth a cent and roll up all the bases. Take the steps off your front porch and move them to the back
and vice versa. If you have a lover or will ever have a lover, write a note in pen explaining all the days you haven’t been yourself. Then write another note in pencil explaining why the days
are always happier in the future. If your dog will ever run away or has escaped and not come back, take the notes and the coal dust remaining on your person disappear in a body of smoke.
Brandon Pettit, despite the subject matter of his most recent work, has been known by the name Pineapple or Silly to many people. Whatever you know him by, he will receive his MFA from the University of South Florida in the Fall of 2010. He is an associate editor of poetry and non-fiction for Sweet: A Literay Confection found at sweetlit.com. He thanks you for reading and for not being too scared of the dark.
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