RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD)

After Kate Bush
Monica Rico

It claws
            it doesn’t begin with an itch
                         a single hurt
                         a pointed branch
                                       me and my fingertips

                                                   what rings    for only    forty-two years
            would one need           a magnifying glass       to see the few years I spent
in a big city
I wasn’t really all that bad was I? you want to know I would have always ended up here know that I have been through some things before you call before you tell me about your bad day it isn’t enough to complain about your body and how it maybe doesn’t listen or what tiny hurt a sliver in the hand