Erasure Poem for Forgiveness from Mick Foley’s “Love Shack” | Josh Shepard

“Owwww! Have mercy!”

-Dude Love, April 20, 1998

open-mouthed & looking / for honesty & understanding / i was—

a sucker? / some serious soulmate? / a heinous / many, many vicious / evil?

bone-gold / we were / Stone Cold / little / & lethal / we wait—

unforgiven? / forgiven? / willing to end this? / bygones forgotten?

o, if you forgive / that would be

mercy

Josh Shepard's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Waxwing, Bureau of Complaint, The Daily Drunk, The Lunch Break Zine, Sledgehammer Lit, Hooligan Magazine, HAD and elsewhere. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He tweets about poetry and professional wrestling @JoshShepard