Tessa Han
there is a rat in my mouth
he hides behind my teeth
in a little space under my tongue
is where his things he keeps
he is afraid of the Light
so i can never open my mouth
and he is afraid of People
so he will never come out
he only eats grains of sugar
so my teeth are rotting through
and he had a divorce with his wife
after she said they were through
now she has taken the house
their truck and the kids too
and he pays her weekly alimony
of five morsels of cheese in lieu
of actual monetary value
for he also lost his job
(he likes to say he quit)
because he threw a stapler at his boss
when he said “that’s it!”
you mope and complain too much
and what’s more than that you try
to sabotage my marriage!
just because yours died!