Issue Twenty-Five - Winter 2015

Multiple Choice(s)

By Amanda Laughtland

You can find the Vietnamese cafe
kitty-corner from Swedish Hospital
or get fish and chips or burgers
along the water. You can kiss
a man or a woman, or a man

and a woman. You can try Northwest Hospital
instead of Swedish, or Northwest
for mammograms and Swedish for cardiology.
You can ask a woman about cardiology
as you eat a cheeseburger

and meet a man at the cafe
after your mammogram. You can stand
kitty-corner from a Swedish woman
and a Vietnamese man along the water
where you can kiss a man

and/or a woman and/or a fish.

Copyright 2015 Laughtland

Amanda Laughtland lives in Seattle, Washington and teaches English at Edmonds Community College. She is the author of Postcards to Box 464 and the editor of Teeny Tiny Press (teenytiny.org).

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