Simone Considers the Future
Simone has a small gilt mouse in her pocket.
Her pocket the size of a woman’s
pocket. It can squeeze all on its own. Simone
has two lovers one is a doctor one is an
escapade. You’ll never guess who owns
a copper cup. Kiss kiss the trophy, says Simone.
Take me to Moscow on a mule, for
there is nothing for us here. The cost of Panko
has skyrocketed. In terms of coatings
only wool remains. What’s more. In the future
everything sublimates into an irksome
concert featuring G. Love and Special Sauce.
Attendees sway like cattails w/ blunts
poking out of the cattails. Historicity
goes the way of the great auk. Simone is flightless
as we have previously established. She cracks the
mouse trying to free it from her pant.
It is not, she observes, a secret golden egg.
Chloe Bryan is a poet and editor living in Knoxville, TN. Her work has appeared in Burial Magazine, Cream City Review, HAD, and elsewhere. She recently received an MFA from Hollins University.