Budget Cuts
Aden Thomas they let you choose sometimes the fingers they will chop off; sometimes they let you pick the knuckle joint. Other times they hold down your hand against the stump and the ax plunges where it falls and lands, taking the whole length of two fingers, or worse, the entire hand, crippling always the rest of the body |
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About the Author: Aden Thomas grew on the high plains of central Wyoming. His work has appeared in The Inflectionist Review and Rust + Moth. His first poetry collection, What Those Light Years Carry, was published by Kelsay Books in 2017.