EXCERPT from Emily Pettit's BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THIS IDEA ABOUT BEING AFRAID OF SOMETHING:
AN AGREEMENT REQUIRES
AN OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE
I came here to get you excited.
We have an accidental stare-down.
No bees, no money. No one says this.
I am so frightening. No one is impressed.
It's all, a duck's quack doesn't echo
and no one knows why. You think
you are whispering when you are not.
We are experts at distributing distorted
information. This is how it might feel,
take hold of something between
you finger and your thumb and twist it
sharply. Make a slight adjustment.
to arrive, a bar, a partition, a stick.
I am hitting rocks with a stick.
What do you believe to be important
points of convergence? Vegetables.
Electricity. The extremely challenging
sky. To show adoration with the eyes.
To say something necessary. I avoid
my eyes. I think I mean it.
Clocking in at 29 pages, incredible artwork by Bianca Stone accompanies individual poems throughout Because You Can Have This Idea About Being Afraid Of Something. Check it out!
AN AGREEMENT REQUIRES
AN OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE
I came here to get you excited.
We have an accidental stare-down.
No bees, no money. No one says this.
I am so frightening. No one is impressed.
It's all, a duck's quack doesn't echo
and no one knows why. You think
you are whispering when you are not.
We are experts at distributing distorted
information. This is how it might feel,
take hold of something between
you finger and your thumb and twist it
sharply. Make a slight adjustment.
to arrive, a bar, a partition, a stick.
I am hitting rocks with a stick.
What do you believe to be important
points of convergence? Vegetables.
Electricity. The extremely challenging
sky. To show adoration with the eyes.
To say something necessary. I avoid
my eyes. I think I mean it.
Clocking in at 29 pages, incredible artwork by Bianca Stone accompanies individual poems throughout Because You Can Have This Idea About Being Afraid Of Something. Check it out!