The Guiltless Traveler
David Breeden

Death may be the mother
of Beauty but daughter
doesn’t call often, doesn’t

visit, even on holidays,
her mother in black turtle
neck and dour expression.

“Cut it with the artist
thing” Beauty said when
she lived at home over

breakfast to the shards
of flesh in mom’s teeth
“Get a life.”

ISBN 1-882983-30-0
33 pages/$6