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LAST SUPPER

Kevin Chesser

baby you

are
the sap
in my tree

the snake
on my plate

the muscle
in my memory

let’s lick the glow stick
crucifix together
and rise

be like blown
transformers
shivering
sparks

baby you

put
the moan
in pneumonia

the eat
in death

                        

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Kevin Chesser is a poet & musician living in Elkins, West Virginia, USA. His poems have appeared in Hobart, Empty House Press, A Void, Dinner Bell, and elsewhere. He is a proud frequent flyer with the West Virginia artists' collective, Travelin' Appalachians Revue.