Annie Boyle | Book Cut

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I bled all over Philip K. Dick
the book I checked out from the library
Six months, visiting at least once a week
and never seen a Philip K. Dick book
in there before this
not even Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
yes, the Blade Runner one
but here is, yellowed and now blooded,
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Read it before, the title story
not the others though, not all
A tear in my hand, bleeding like a paper cut
I'm sure it's Philip K. Dick's fault
an hour later I'm still bleeding
He would probably say
I'm just stuck over and over
at the minute of cutting
but finishing the book hasn't got me out of this
it just made a bigger mess

Annie Boyle has had poetry and prose published in numerous print and electronic magazines, including Thieves Jargon, The Outer Rim, and Waxing and Waning. Her first collection of poetry is titled Light Shift, for sale through lulu.com; the second collection, Age of Miracles, will be available later this year. Further information can be found at: http://www.lulu.com/annie_boyle. She currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with the witches, the puritans, the tourists, the sea, a couple of good Thai restaurants, and other sources of inspiration.

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