Awareness Achievement Denied
Read Spenser Smith's "Awareness Achievement Denied" in Issue 38: Summer 2017 of The Puritan, then check out our fantastic poetry contest!
I am drunk off Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi.
Fizz seethes past incisors and tongue.
Count this carbonated burp *burp*
as a Prayer for Paris.
“It’s the thought that counts!”
“It’s the thought that counts!”
Where’s the skin, the cartilage.
Where’s the investment of blood vessels.
Show me a MacBook circuit board,
fried and burnt from decent, salty sweat.
Body thinking, body moving, body doing,
body ripping out the goddamn ‘enter’ key.
Pick a bone, any bone, to pick:
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Do-good Facebook statuses with 108 likes
and an engagement metric of fuck you.
Poetry on the beauty of writing poetry.
Millennial think-pieces.
Profile pic activism.
Lobster font.
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Consider: there are more stars in the universe
than granules of sand on Earth.
Please, draw a line in antiproverbial sand.
Upturn galaxies. Spin granules into quasars.
Only a witch can save us.
Only a black Massachusetts night.
Conjure an army of ghosts
with double the backbone of Atticus Finch.
Translucent arms incapable
of patting themselves on the back.
