MEGHANN BOLTZ
Image by Daniel Uncapher
I ❤️ It Here
SILLY GIRL go swing your
ponytail somewhere else girl
girl the bottom line is always RIGHT
below your BELLY button let me
slip this speculum inside stick-on
lips hand me the petroleum jelly hit
delete: rinse repeat get on TV girl
fake palm trees look
realer than real
palm trees which
look fake under
studio lights
we’ll put you on meat hooks
& pretend to cry when you die
just LOVE ME or leave me but love me
a little t&a or ECT
if there is an angel to save
us she will be sleek, silver &
streamlined with a COLTAN soul.
girl.
ponytail somewhere else girl
girl the bottom line is always RIGHT
below your BELLY button let me
slip this speculum inside stick-on
lips hand me the petroleum jelly hit
delete: rinse repeat get on TV girl
fake palm trees look
realer than real
palm trees which
look fake under
studio lights
we’ll put you on meat hooks
& pretend to cry when you die
just LOVE ME or leave me but love me
a little t&a or ECT
if there is an angel to save
us she will be sleek, silver &
streamlined with a COLTAN soul.
girl.
Kertang*
there’s no smoking on this spaceship
this is not a gas station bathroom circling
the universe just prepare me for my lunar
burial can’t stop this death drive-
in utero annihilation i adjust the rearview
mirror while i cry so i can see if i’m doing
it right buckle up my chastity belt
this is the year of self love my face disappoints
it’s only pretty when it lights up DayGlo™
lips Dior lashes i dream of Our Young
Couple in Love & then it’s Tom Cruise’s
original teeth sinking into star fruit
once you realize no one is coming for you
you agree to be the sex robot
a True Companion now abandon
your blogs & online shopping carts
the angel Kurt will appear as hologram
to beam you back home
the night bends in the white moon giggling
above us all love is monochromatic
& inflatable with a highly polished
stainless steel finish red or maybe magenta
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*the written sound of 2 robots having sex
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I'm Not Famous
after Shia LaBeouf
after Shia LaBeouf
in the [ ]
of yourself
people will try to touch
the seat where
your ass just
sat & listen
for the white
noise of electrons
dubstep your
void & demand
to taste the static
of your solar
spectrum hint:
strawberry
Pop Rocks®
zapping the
tongue you
have nothing
to fear
there is no
absence
when you are
a presence
this is their right
as a citizen
of the internet
you radiate
exclusivity black
amex casu
marzu
o2 bars
iconoclasm
is silicone
bands around
the wrist
…
only
the camera
catches you blink
of yourself
people will try to touch
the seat where
your ass just
sat & listen
for the white
noise of electrons
dubstep your
void & demand
to taste the static
of your solar
spectrum hint:
strawberry
Pop Rocks®
zapping the
tongue you
have nothing
to fear
there is no
absence
when you are
a presence
this is their right
as a citizen
of the internet
you radiate
exclusivity black
amex casu
marzu
o2 bars
iconoclasm
is silicone
bands around
the wrist
…
only
the camera
catches you blink
MEGHANN BOLTZ is a poet living in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of East Anglia and her work has appeared / is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, Peach Mag, Bad Pony, and the anthology My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (BlazeVOX).
