NEW! "Whether the escalator is moving up or down, it can still tear us apart", a new poem by me, inside the HOT MESS issue of Stirring

"One month you Instagram me;
the next month I'm deleted and replaced
with instant coffee.
Maybe we have different taste buds
and different ideas
about amusement park rides.
 
I used to enjoy the quick release
of a roller coaster plunging down fast
and the escalating screams.
My shut eyes were filled with haunted house
strobe lights of terrified delight.
Now it feels more like a downward spiral
leading closer to death,"

from my poem "Whether the escalator is moving up or down, it can still tear us apart", which appears in the new July HOT MESS issue of Stirring.

read more HERE - https://www.stirringlit.com/new-page-2