by Meghan Kemp-Gee
Make the bad math work out,
beautiful. Sweetheart, let your sharp
noise be famous, may bald
billionaires ride on your fried and
rattled knuckles into
space, your craft and incantations
opened up with fire-red
flourish, with your indifference
boiling over, with some
magnetized component rattling
somewhere in the metal-
works, let it writhe, unwind, and sing,
howl at it, whisper, Flood
the floodwalls. Bring the whole thing down.
Meghan Kemp-Gee is the author of THE ANIMAL IN THE ROOM (2023) and WHAT I MEANT TO ASK: A CHAPBOOK (2022). She also co-created CONTESTED STRIP, the world’s best comic about ultimate frisbee (and soon to be a graphic novel, ONE MORE YEAR).
Emerge Literary Journal 