You don’t have to cut yourself to be open to receive change from the

almighty rabbit warrens in the sky / Say you’ve nicked yourself shaving

without a mirror & although you can’t see the exact source of the blood

you still know that it’s happening fast somewhere south of the chin /

You’re about to be so vulnerable to the world even your skin betrays you

/ The blood leaves tracks around the drain / This is the moment you’ve

been waiting for the one that usually gets away from you before you

realize you have an important question to ask / Will mother forgive us

for not burying her in the minivan? Where is she now? / Was happiness

there when she left us? / The Chariot returns for your questions every

time you ask like that one unlicensed cab gig she never legitimized even

though we all begged / Never happier than ordering fast food from

behind the wheel of whichever van she was currently wearing down

before abandoning completely / But don’t forget traditionally the card

depicts a palanquin carried by sphinxes gossiping in riddles to the

powerful woman holding the happy meals so I’m sure whatever she’s up

to she’s getting something out of it / Like a mother who seems to be

spending eternity doing what she’s always done / Ferrying demigods &

their children around in the saloons of the afterlife trafficking in

folktales about rabbits who leap from the beginning of time right into

the middle of the road nearly causing an accident / No not another one /

Of course blame the rabbit not the drinking. 

Blame the rabbit not the drinking | Turn to page 37

Blame the rabbit not the drinking | Turn to page 38

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RJ Equality Ingram lives next to a cemetery in Portland, Oregon & works as a necromancer for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. RJ's second collection of poetry Peacock Lane is forthcoming from White Stag & RJ's debut collection The Autobiography of Nancy Drew was published in 2024 also by White Stag. More work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Deep Overstock, Luna Luna & Phoebe Journal among others. Follow @RJ_Equality for pictures of their cats Twyla & Senator Padme Amidala.