We watched every version of the Kennedy Assassination
in that cardboard cupboard of a room
today

In 1975 people thought Mrs. Kennedy was scared when she jumped out of the back seat and onto the trunk of the car right after the shooting, but later the secret service agent told everyone that she was really jumping out there to retrieve a piece of her husband’s head that had landed on the trunk of the black convertible.

“Wouldn’t that be your first reaction?”
“Yeah.”

2 Splices due to Life Magazine and
a book I have to read most of by
Tuesday

And we sell a hard cover book
about Jackie O. at this store I
work at, this “place that’s supposed to represent some sort of CLASS”
with meetings that tell you this and
a “program” and 10 dollar bobby pins

You can put your own polka dots on them with
paint for much less and sometimes
I tell the customers this in a hushed voice by
the headless mannequin wearing the jacket
that looks like tomatoes.

Nicole Kuwik
Born in Cleveland, Ohio.