Complete/Separate # 3
the difficult snow. the sky is making work
for the sun bear. driveways to be shoveled. per season
snow plow contracts getting their money’s worth.
more car crashes. there are no snow days in the
adult world tow. truck drivers work on commission.
elsewhere snow is a fable. someone’s ex boyfriend
is in san diego planning a ski trip. cacti have evolved
to store enough water to survive for years. someday
the trees will realize how cold it is.
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it’s okay. spring always happens and the sewer grates
are reliable. if the sun bear gets spleen cancer the
doctor can remove the spleen. the star fruit trees
have been making star fruits longer than the sun bear had
been a bear. we can trust the trees. even if they don’t know.
Complete/Separate # 5
and elsewhere is it probably raining.
many other sun bears are equally successful
but their skill sets are in more valuable
markets such as star fruit growing
or managing hedge funds. in many places
there are other sun bears who were born
in zoos and thus have little opportunity
to be successful sun bears. with all this in mind
it is absurd that we can sleep at all.
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there is Nyquil for nights when the sun bear feels like cheating
grief. his job puts enough star fruits on the table and he
can be home in time to go to his cub’s little league games.
that’s exactly what happens at the end of all the movies. right?
the charities do good work and the weekends are present/alive.
SEAN CHO A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House 2021) winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be future found or ignored in Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at The University of California Irvine and a Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Editor in Chief of The Account.