Cate Peebles

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31 Notes for a Horror Movie

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1. Fresh start in the country: a house full of amulets, handprints

2. Straw dolls, key chains, a scent when the priest drops by

3. The drawer filled to spilling with tiny bottles of perfume and tints

4. My Latin is dusty

5. A nation of idling cars: get in, we’re leaving town

6. Can’t tell you how to sing the songs I used to know

7. Packing plenty of canned meat to hide out the apocalypse & baby too

8. City life is her mind and she leaves it behind

9. Maybe an antique brooch and raw beef would be nice

10. Do your research: something happened here before you were born

11. A mirror is propped up to catch window moods

12. Practice your scream in desert locations; yellow pants, pink sky

13. Child on bicycle rides by twice, same direction, whistles

14. The ice cream truck tune bleeds into Yankee Doodle

15. Child zombies on ice at the mall

16. American sun, hot dogs, red gullets

17. A cracked spool of microfilm at the library

18. Thinking is no longer an option for me

19. Gold eyes glow gold eyes glow gold

20. Holy names

21. Powers that be

22. Tentacle embrace all in your head

23. Tarantula spooning crocheted brazier—a fly descends

24. Where’s the dog, Yolanda?

25. An explosion sometime in the past, its aftermath

26. Don’t believe in the future, do you?

27. She walks down basement stairs, feels his mouth 

28. But nothing, your heart sweats, everything right where it was

29. Whose hand in the water lifts red hair

30. Don’t argue against lust, Daphne, but lock the door

31. The End

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