National Poetry Month : Jamie Kitts,

 

 

these controversial peaches

 

wear white to my wedding

there is more white on the tablecloths

the socks and dress shirts and pearls

than any dress i could drag

dirty across the ground

i am not so precious

there’s a war going on

 

have a beer at my funeral

bring your needles and your pipes

let my final resting place

be a safe injection site

toast my rpg life knowing

i'm fighting the final boss

that gold-plated narcissist in the sky

 

upload my works to z-library

if you see me in chapters indigo

i give you explicit permission to shoplift

steal my album like toxicity 2

repost my poems on tiktok

like a smutty transfem june bates

she[n]is the poem and other guitar solos

 

 

 

Jamie Kitts (she/her) is the Managing Editor of Qwerty Magazine and the Editor-in-Chief of Gridlock Lit. She is the author of Girl Dinner (Emergency Flash Mob Press, 2024), co-author of All Things to Keep You Here (w/Egg Poets, Qwerty Homerow, 2023) and the editor of Qwerty Crystal: The Best of Qwerty Magazine—Part I, 1996-2010 (Qwerty Magazine, 2024). She is also a PhD student living in Ekpahak on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik People.