BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYONE by Amanda Deo

We hit a fox the night after you get arrested. The headlights are wet with SHIT HAPPENS. You catch my shaking hands from shattering your teeth. From giving myself another black eye. I cradle the fox and hold her like four years of it won't happen again.

I strap her into the car seat and you drive away, drive away, drive away.

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Amanda Deo is the author of North of the Mason-Dixon Line (In/Words, 2005). She is an audiophile. She lives in Toronto.

This piece can be found in her collection You Sang It Back to Me, which is now available from Mad Rush Books. The accompanying playlist for this collection can be listened to here.