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Coat The Skillet
1
Imagine each frog murdered
In the garden
Each frog leg chopped off with a cleaver or two.
2
Frog legs are usually green
But some gardener has tossed these maroon-toned
Amputated thighs into a red netted bag and knotted it in
An incandescent finish.
3
Sitting still in the refrigerator
The skins of the frogs’ legs
Give the appearance of flaky onion skins
Their insides withering, shriveled.
Senescing despicably.
4
60 frog legs in their sepulchral bag.
I pull them out
Unknot the knot
As I yank out the senescent legs from
The flaky empyrean-colored panty hose
Clinging tightly to their wilted muscular
Thighs and chop each
End of their useless
Flesh off—I think:
These legs won’t hop or leap
Insomnolently from one river
Bed of grass to another. They will
Hop right into my skillet.
5
Their legs, diced, will sleep
In marinated red sauce and boiled pork
Broth and pork bones
Like Etruscan lovers
After a nuptial quarrel.
6
The soul of these shallot frog legs
Coats the skillet
With a deliberate sweetness.
Only World War II
Dressed in nude could
Appreciate the elite status
Of their amputation. 
Black Snow
Coat The Skillet
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