The Screaming Sheep
plea
admit it
we are all
hoping
for a crisis
send us
a missing
plane or
a tsunami
burn our
neighbor’s
house
to the ground
find
a doll-eyed
celebrity
with a needle
in his arm
release
another nuke
whatever
it takes
just give us
a reason
to ignore
the bills
abandon
the laundry
leave
the baby
wailing in
the carriage
Lauren Hall’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in NANO Fiction, The Conium Review, Cleaver, The Lascaux Review, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and others. She was awarded the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Master’s degree. www.laurenhallwriting.com.
Lauren Hall
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