The assignment that is due tomorrow was prompted as such: If x is y then ______.

NEXT-DOOR

If the red stoplight is the sound of
my neighbors skull against plaster,
then she is the junk yard car
with a teenager's brains still
crusted on the windscreen.

If her common law marriage
is the bit in a lame horse's mouth
as it digs into his molars,
then he is to be shot
before Easter.

If my neighbor cries 
as she smokes a menthol,
then she is the fish gasping
in broken glass,
licked clean of fear.

Love from Pullman,

The Blonde and The Bullshit