I gave my iPhone Pepto-Bismol

it protested

I gave my iPhone Pepto-Bismol
Photo by Bekky Bekks / Unsplash

by Ewen Glass


but the bile kept coming;

I gave it baby formula but

it did not grow into an iPad.

Instead it protested, fizzed

and flatly refused its vitamins.

Kids, eh.


Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art. Bluesky/IG: @ewenglass