Jessy Randall

THE REVENGE

He signs a piece of paper
saying if he dies
I get $300,000.

Then he leaves.

Leaving is
like dying.
Leaving could be
dying.

With $300,000
I could buy a lion.
I could buy a llama.
I could buy a llama
farm. I could make
sweaters from their wool.
I could become a llama wool millionaire
and take those millions and buy a spaceship.
I could discover life orbiting Alpha Centauri
and find a new boyfriend on the new planet,
one who really understands love, and what it means,
and what it requires.

Date of Birth: December 25, 1969 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Occupation: Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College Email: jessyrandall@yahoo.com Publications: Antietam Review, Blue Moon Review, Mudfish, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pif, Snakeskin, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, etc. Book: Dorothy Surrenders

- May 2002 - Memory Selection Little Mother Lust for Light Lines when we moved back here Valentine (Funny how we assumed) Leaving Left The Equation The Revenge Julia Letter to my Sister A Voice Touching In Miniature Smog - Erin Elizabeth's Favorite Six - For Gala-Salvador Dali For our dead cat . . . A Poem to My Left Breast Sadie and jamie wouldn't eat her dinner. Scratching A Sound From My Throat, Waiting For The Room To Clear