Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of the forthcoming Disease of Kings (Norton, 2023). He is also the author of The Low Passions (Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection, and Dynamite (Bull City, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
No car to drive to the dump and too embarrassed to borrow one, you scrape the black mold off the underside as best you can, muscle it onto your shoulder. Spores multiplied to the size
After pulling a score from the dumpster behind Krogers I stroll through sliding doors with egg-caked hands. The greeter greets me as I pass. I scan the aisles like a surgeon studying the mint
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