two poems by Huntie Hodkinson

chain

woman becoming


I’ve got one job to do.


Grab an animal who

just wants to be

put down.


The day requires

me to squirm.


No words,

just an entire

language

deserving

jail time.


Deep in my heart

I don’t know

what did it,


where that

line came from


on the page

off someones

phone screen.


I swore I’d

never vape and

one time when I

was really high I

realized I had been

vaping for over a year,


and I wondered what

person became me.


Suburban Fantasy


Crawl across the nicely trimmed lawn /

hands and knees / from the doors of my

chrome convertible / in the broad daylight /

begging to clean your black boots / with

my tongue / offer to pay extra to kiss your

smelly sized 13’s / my girlfriends


asleep in inside / hurry up loser

/ yeah that’s right / make a

mess out of what god gave you.


chain

As much as Huntie loves to talk about their achievements, lately they've been suspicious, considering the "author bio" to be used more as an exclusionary device rather than a space to celebrate achievements. They are the mother of Dead End Zine.

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