go ahead! by Chloe Kirkpatrick
Show your friends the sexy drawings in your notebook.
Turns out, they’ll kinda like them, and you’ll kinda like
feeling like a tree with all its bark peeled off.
The picnic table where you’re sitting
reminds you of the persistent ringing
in your left ear. One friend says she’s just
happy to be here and another says this
made me feel things, pointing to a drawing
of a naked girl, dripping, eating a torta.
Artwork by Ashley Robin Franklin (@arfranklinstein)