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BLACK MARKET LIT
About Katie Ogle.
and red lines crisscross on the carpet like tic-tac-toe
KATIE OGLE is a junior English literature major at Miami University who doesn't usually write poems but figured, you know, what the hey. She spends her time ignoring the classics to read contemporary fiction, watching TV that doesn't suck, and writing the next great American novel (or so she hopes). She thanks you for reading her feeble attempt at poetry and hopes you enjoy.
you knock over a lamp
and walk on white ceramic
blades and stain them with red
and drag your feet across the floor
and feel carpet fibers sticking
to the edges of your sliced skin
and later when you wash your blood
from the shards and
glue them back together
the lamp is pink
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