water i WON’T touch
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My partner & I only believe
in good omens, because we are young and gay and generally unbothered when god tells us we are misbehaved. In response, we invite hell hounds into our bed and invest in a proper vacuum. Religion in America is taken much too seriously. And though, we are dying, please watch us rejoice simply at not having killed the house plants, simply at having cooked a meal even and through. |
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Kayleb Rae Candrilli is a 2019 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry and the author of Water I Won’t Touch (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), All the Gay Saints (Saturnalia, 2020), and What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017). You can read more of Candrilli’s work here.