“I want to live in your camera, take a picture of my heart with yours.”
Joseph Arthur-Evidence

How do you like that Rebel?
Remember that camera,
the thousand dollar picture
taker you came into my house
and stole, ripped off, lifted.

Do you get a high every
time you click the shutter
at someones body or have it
pointing at yours? Does it brighten
your recollection of the world

knowing there are images
of thieves like you posted
everywhere? You loser. I hope
you get cross eyed, carpal tunnel
syndrome and your face freezes

in one position forever.
I hope you see double, and
that unfortunate family who
poses and smiles in front
of a stolen camera grows mutinous

from congregating in one place
as fast as you aim. If by some less
than miracle you sold it
to someone else, I hope
you were caught and turned
in for this and all the other
felonious deeds you have done
and that you can only see the
outside world from behind bars
where grackles poop on rotten

apples. I haven’t been able
to afford another camera,
but maybe that’s fortunate
because I would think of your
twisted heart with every shot.

Copyright © 2011 Dianne Klammer

Diane Klammer, is a wife, mother, naturalist and retired Counseling Psychologist, who started writing seriously about five years ago. Her poetry has been published in Tattoo Highway, Pirene’s Fountain, Heavybear, Midwifery Today, Rattle and elsewhere. Her Fiction is in Fast Forward Mix Tape Edition. Diane’s first book, “Shooting The Moon”, was published by Monkey Puzzle Press in October of 2009.

“I still feel like a new writer, constantly editing, changing and trying to write one word at a time. We must learn not to wallow in the nadir of self criticism or in the zenith of conceit concerning our work, but remain on the level horizon where we can be at our best.”

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