Small Town as The Palimpsest That I Keep Trying to Reset Back to Original Childhood Happiness
Would we have been friends in a different town? / This town is all I have of you now.
Poetry
Get out of My Head
Have you ever seen a jar of mayo smash on the ground?
post-utero instructions
After “Out utero” recorded by Manuel Guerrero and hosted by Cities and Memory
heaven-spent
to all but the unheard, who recognize / this sort of shouting from the howl
hey, that rhymes
after “Youth” by Glass Animals
Postcolonial Takeout Discourse
Exhibit A: the deep-fried Twinkie. / Ex. B: the deep-fried pizza. Novelties / that you might have at the fair once / a year.
Beekeeping Age
Spite has gotten me further in life than / anything else. Is that not a type of / happiness? I live a happier life once I've / had revenge.