Thursday Poetry Post: A Poem That Takes Place on September 26th
My legs on yours, in the stadium lights
I have a book coming out! Soon. Like next month. It’s my first chapbook, from Bullshit Lit, and it is about friendships! As soon as you can order it, I’ll let you know.
The poem we’re going to talk about today is in that collection. Honestly, the poem itself is…kinda cursed! It’s about baseball and a crappy friend who turned out to be a shitty, abusive person, not truly a friend at all. But I clearly had some instinctive understanding of that when I wrote the poem, as you’ll see. The whole thing makes me think of this meme:
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