NORMAn BATES HATES THE SUN by Caitlin Plunkett

Norman Bates Hates the Sun

by Caitlin Plunkett

hush · issue 1

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I wear my mother’s dress at noon

   beneath a plump casaba melon,

           somnambulist of twelve rooms.

I wear my mother’s dress at noon.

   Her voice tart. My own, jejune:

         

           Ornithological felon!

 

I wear my mother’s dress at noon

   beneath a plump casaba melon.