JESUS IS ALIVE FOR THE PEOPLE NOT YOUR DATE HEAVEN INTO HELL
alice kosmicki
youth group in the summertime barefoot dates first kiss in the back of his pickup tossing in her
bed that night ribbons in my hair good little girl black coffee burns i missed church that day but i
prayed harder that night feet swinging above the lake telling fairytales at the army recruitment
center doing it for god meat and potatoes belt buckle sounds like a cardigan on the side of the
road mud on the bedroom floor if i bleed enough maybe it’ll be enough seventy-three days later
he’s not listening anymore hyperventilating to joel olsteen still yelling at the sky when it starts to
rain through the sunshine sometimes they call that the devil beating his wife sometimes they just
don’t speak watching the news another baptism in 223s bury them in lotto tickets when a new sin
is announced practicing holding our breath our faces on the kitchen floor i could do this since i
was six i could do this in the womb i could do this with my eyes closed and my hands up high
every sunday til i die
Alice Kosmicki is a poet and musician born and bred in a small, swampy town in Florida, only to be transplanted somewhere in the Midwest. She writes for and about Queer issues, existentialism, and pretty much anything that will give her a good beat. She is currently working on a series of poetry zines, lord willing.
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