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pardon my french, but you're an asshole

​​Pull a loose hair out of my bra
What do I have to show for it
A better set of pens might be the perfect thing
A credit to capital and a debit to Owner’s Equity
That doesn’t concern anyone you’d know
Oh how I hate to quit, I’ve hated the act
I was suddenly in a spelling bee and given a long word
Sandy said, “they all did what they needed to do”
Which is almost as backhanded as when I said
I hoped everyone got what they deserved
Knowing which acts drove me to choose wrongly
Does not help my mood
Picture
Saro Calewarts. Symbols, 2017, from the series Edge Space.

believe the lie

logging in or logging out
slice of pizza for me
you shouldn’t even visit
and I ask which two worlds are those
my nature vocabulary is burgeoning
I feel summed up, I feel compacted
his tactical shift same as the racists use
it’s good I didn’t get what I wanted, I wish
I’m not good at memorizing much
besides they also serve who only stand and wait,
the daffadillies fill their cups with tears &
wife in a Subaru putting on moisturizer

Krystal Languell lives in Chicago, where she works for the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of three books: Call the Catastrophists (BlazeVox, 2011), Gray Market (1913 Press, 2016), and Quite Apart (University of Akron Press, forthcoming 2019). Recently, she published The Big Flawed Heart, a poetry chapbook about George Eliot’s Middlemarch, with Essay Press.
​Saro Calewarts is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based photographer with childhood and family roots in the Pacific Northwest. With a background in film studies and graphic design, she has always been fascinated by the process of seeing, creating, and visual language. Her creative touchstones are rooted in a poetic synergy of symbolism, philosophy, and observation. She works as a graphic designer and photographer for an arts non-profit organization and is active within the Santa Fe photography community. Her work has been exhibited at David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, featured in NOICE Magazine, and on numerous photography websites.
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