Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Jason Bredle
Most Of Us Riot
Most of us riot
with supreme brightness
but when people nod
& motion to an esplanade
we have no idea
what’s going on,
we’ve never known
true friendship,
we are bad at basketball
& we are obsessed
with the statistics
of our failures,
so we eat the toes
of our porcelain dolls
& declare our faith
to our cats
by ingesting aerosols,
the lanterns in the river
blacken with ash
as principals scream at us
when our children
can’t use chopsticks
to pick up dice
& run to the cafeteria
to cry under a table
because the gym teachers
of the world believe
they have no rights