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<< Back to Issue 3.2

“The Caller” by Gina Abelkop

I work this body, hello hello

Hello      land

I’ve said goodbye to God
so as to take you up instead

Vast and skewered      on the lamppost
of California     it is me and all women
Bustled, raw and bought    Freshening
dirted streets       We give and give

and give unto the land      We love
and temper the dance hall in time
to pianoforte   Watch us now       watch

This    My best dress
It is blue   It stands on its own

I can watch it move
knowing there’s only so far
it can go      without me

Without us, this town,     a belt
Strapped unhappily about bulged    waist

Holding in the sky so it don’t come
down upon us all   Who am I to
assert such damnations        I am the
caller calling out unto us all

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