uniform red

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my maid of honor told me everything:

the winchester in your waistband,

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the red paint

on your penny timeline

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the reason you won’t fix

your Ford’s mirror cracks

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she didn’t know I’ve always known

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it’s just cause you’re a taxpayer

and you fall asleep to cable news

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have you ever slept with a phlebologist?

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they’re all the same!

they trace your veins

ask distracting questions

while drawing blood.

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Emma Kuli is a poet and screenwriter from Villa Park, California. She is a California Young Playwright, a Handlery Prize winner, a Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, and a Canterbury Scholar. Her writing has been published in Inkblot, the Owl, and Life Without Borders and produced through Playwright’s Project and the New Play Festival.