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Susan Isla Tepper has been a writer for twenty-plus years and is the author of twelve published books of fiction and poetry, and seven stage plays. She writes in all genres, with stories, poems, interviews, essays, and opinion columns published extensively worldwide. Her new novel, titled Hair Of A Fallen Angel, was released by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, NYC.

Do I Die Today

Susan Isla Tepper

That curse is the light
behind anyone’s guess.
You move it moves
a few years back
then forward
a sickening rotation;
startling even the crow
quietly on a branch.
You boil two eggs in shells.

Five fucking years suspended
they call this life—
they say Oh get on with it.
Have the eggs been boiled
hard for peeling?

You are willing to go
astray,  go down in the pit
take a look around
decide.

— Susan Isla Tepper

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