Impossible Motel Room 5B

Joshua Ware
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You lie naked on a motel bed covered with stuffed animals, and I sit in a chair watching you. With legs splayed, you select one of the stuffed animals and masturbate with it. I try to tell you how beautiful you look when doing so, but from my open mouth spills cotton, synthetic fiber, and shredded polyurethane. This is how I know you are my lover you say, because your animal insides have been with me since childhood. I am pleased. You are pleased. The stuffed animals are pleased.

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Joshua Ware lives in Lincoln, NE where he is completing his doctorate in poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His first book, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley won the 2010 Furniture Press Poetry Prize and was published this summer. He is the author several chapbooks, and his work has appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, New American Writing, and Quarterly West.