the party
started with guns in their
mouths
and a nice baby’s breath
arrangement
that seemed to play off her
dress
the vows said
heard by those with knives
in their eyes and a one way
ticket
when the part came to kiss
the bride
the Mothership
arrived with a light
they’d never known or seen
there’s no love in Roswell
there’s no love
in her eyes anymore.
Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His last poetry collection A Little Black Dress Called Madness hit #1 Poetry in Germany. He is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee and his work appears in over a hundred literary journals including International Journal of Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, 3am magazine, Word Riot, Thirty West, and many more.
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