The Holy Rosary, as it is prayed today, requires for the Hail Mary to be prayed 53 times. And on streets all over the world in the first week of June, people marched many kilometres chanting, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE over and over. And Carly Rae Jepsen sings the word, ‘really’ 67 times in her E•MO•TION lead single, ‘I Really Like You’.

A COW and a single ALMOND stand behind a trestle table. They await judgement. A BUTTER KNIFE stands before them with the manic energy of an early afternoon cooking show host.

She thumps and she yawns and she’s your cat cutting love into sliced apples where the seeds spill your name.

You are humming beneath your breath on the walk home, hoping the streetlights hear you. The night is cold but crickets trill in trees, high a capella vibrations that the wind carries with it. At the end of the street, motel sheets scratch against hipbones and hushed conversations huddle like ghosts. Maybe you’ll even press your face against the vending machine just to hear that low, fluorescent buzz.

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An elliptical optical illusion, like how the moon is actually just cashews and vinegar and something else. Garlic, I think. It, probably, has a crush on me? Big rocks in space don’t have hands to hold, but we’ll figure something out.

The Romans defeated us but we were reborn: in cathedrals and Romantic poetry, in Bauhaus and Lestat, in teenagers heavy with black lipstick and eyeliner. If you made potions in the sandpit, grated acorns against concrete, pried itchybombs for their fluff, you may be one of us.