acetate afternoons by jenna jarvis

though luck be a fuccboi tonight
like a fake nail your Lightning
press on
americans like afternoon games
hockey on the tv like gay marriage
or polyamory
some people are rly into it
when i hear Grimes sing italiano
mobster lookin so precious
i cringe evidently but think of you
who cut ur fangs on Angelfire
in this age we’re all culturally
catholic that is to say liberal
minded
but your grandparents’ ornate
tomb should be on an aesthetic
microblog
i’ve known a number
of people who wear large
acetate frames even more be-
spectacled graphic designers
(ur my passion)
i don’t know anyone
else who listens to Pulp
the only other Melvins fan was
this guy in high school whom i
crushed on then detested
if they released a new vinyl
called warpussy
then we should all tag ourselves
as pestilencepussy faminepussy
deathpussy
luck must be the latter becuz
it’s all cyclical when it comes to art
deco windows or
vaporware

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jenna jarvis is a writer whose poetry has appeared in such publications as ottawater, the Puritan, and Keep This Bag Away From Children. her poem "syndical not synecdochal" secured an honourable mention for the Puritan's 2014 Thomas Morton Prize. she is currently writing a chapbook of poems about pokémon go.