i think alejandra pizarnik was right about everything

by S.R. Ekstein

if i was on a talkshow

i’d pay someone to citizen kane applause me out

it’s a giant undertaking to consider the ocean

so i stopped considering it 

as a kid, i could never do a full cartwheel

wonder why im not dead

S.R. Ekstein has previously been published for poetry in Fawn Press' Thicket Magazine, and for fiction in Baby Teeth Journal. She can be found in her local library or @SREwrites on Instagram.