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​ Image: Screen capture from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. ​


THE GANG REALIZES
EM POWER

Mac is begging God for forgiveness.
Dennis is telling Mac he shouldn’t beg
anyone that isn’t Dennis
for anything.

Dee wishes she had just killed herself
in the episode where the joke was
that she was depressed and might
kill herself. At least she had an out then.

Charlie is glad he can’t read
because Dee is talking weird
and her sad little suicide note
would probably totally bum him out.

Frank is pathetic and grotesque, like usual.
When they roll him over, he’s not breathing.
The gang takes turns throwing peanuts
into his slightly agape mouth.

You keep expecting him to gasp,
and cough up the peanuts,
and continue to be pathetic
and grotesque. But he never does.

He just stays, all small and shrunken,
gulping down peanuts,
and a fly lands on his eye,
and rubs its little black hands together greedily.
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And Mac renounces God.
And Dee is airborne.
And Charlie’s huffing paint.
And Dennis. Dennis

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Em Power is a 19 year old writer from London. She is a three-time winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award, an Adroit Journal mentee, and a big fan of the TV show Succession. She is currently studying English at the University of Oxford.
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