I hate
The clouds
Their
Smudgy
Fingerprints
The sky
Like
Windex
Everything
That
Stares
Without
Reaching
Out
 
 
 
 
The
Land is
Covered
In bloody
Sheets
We spill out
By the
Gallon
But we’re
Never
Gone
Too I am
Wanting
To be filled
With something
Your illness
Or another’s
Rings out of my ass
To never
Forget
Anyone
Is the most
Important
Thing
The most
Important
Thing is
The thing
You can’t
Help
I am sorry
For that
But too
Sorry is
My favorite
Feeling
The way it
Tickles
Your brain
And is a
Trick
 
 
 
 
The glamour of
Enterprise
They are still
Stepping upon
Our faces
Luv
It was
A beautiful
Time
Stuck like
Worms
Your wormy
Flesh
Death
Is defeated
The church
Sign says
Luv
Did you
See it?
I am yes
A disease
Hungry
And
Protected
In the
City of
Television
The world
Is far
Away now
Inside
And all
Around us
Tiny little
Tiny
Little wars

LAURA THEOBALD is the author of Kokomo (Disorder Press, 2019) and What My Hair Says About You (Metatron, 2017) plus three chapbooks. She’s a PhD candidate in creative writing at UGA, and has worked for a number of small press publishers, including OOMPH! and BOAAT. Her poetry has appeared in jubilat, The Volta, Hobart, Peach Mag, The Atlas Review, Everyday Genius, and Black Warrior Review, among others, and in the anthology Women of Resistance (O/R, 2018).

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