when one loses themselves within an ounce of forgery

/ Olga Mikolaivna (Writer), Helen Huang (Illustrator)

Poetry1 min reading time

No. 6

A stylized digital illustration. The lower half is an orange clifface and the top half is a light blue sky and puffy white clouds.

there is something about a gloomy day after a night of partying.
about the vicinity of thoughts, heavy and unearthed.
maybe i should         et could               et…

my aim was always
to please. and somebody
once told me i must continue on paths;
as salmon make their way to spawn and die in autumn,
there was and always is, more
than uttered, than visible.

in tucson, i answered back in spanish.
a man taken by effect, grinned a smile of surprise and cunning.
asking if i am with my mom.

no thats my friend, you fucking asshole.

the wind blew heavily.
reassuring me of my direction to the west. the sonoran desert of the bolaño chapters
lied in his teeth
as if we did not understand
each                      other.

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