Alternate Timelines
fresh from reading Turtledove
I Google my name
checking to see
if my website is well promoted
jarred by long list
I peruse headlines
seems I'm a gynecologist
in Aurora Colorado
a make-up artist
in London
insurance sales-person
in Volga, SD.
a professor of Arabic literature
in Montreal.
last June a twenty-four-year-old me
was found dead in a dumpster
in Lansing
identified by unusual tattoos
the sister
who disapproves
will raise my three year old
my sister disapproves of me
or is it this other sister
there is Arabic literature on my shelf
was this where I went
when things went wrong
or maybe right
or is this not the life
I'm suppose to be living
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words: Michelle Hartman, Texas (website)
image: 'Bygones' - Jean Morris, UK (tasting rhubarb)
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another alternate line: Map II (#20)
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