Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full length collection is Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press). He has chapbooks published or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications. Read more at www.everythingishorrible.net.
A fat roach crawls across the floor toward one crumb that grows ever larger like a dead eye. A dead eye crawls across the floor towards one crumb that dreams of being a roach. The skills you need wear you like a bag of skin. But only you can sew the bag.
Everything went into the jar. Extinct charismatic megafauna went into the jar. And George Lucas. And a Martian heat ray. And death, wearing a balloon hat shaped like a jar. And an NFT shaped like death. And freedom. The jar was a very safe place to keep your freedom. You could carry the jar everywhere and never lose your freedom…. Read more →