Jess Rizkallah

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the path of your eyebrow hairs is information i know by heart.
by brain. by spleen. JK what’s a spleen for. 

information is me telling you my favorite color
is what your voice does
grazed against the dawn
or w/e 

^ fake news, my favorite color is actually purple 

pls hold up ur end of the file exchange 

a ten thousand octopus emoji curse upon your house 

haha 

encryption is when i say The Thing but i do it by throwing cake at the wall
and yodeling. 

BREAKING: stand up comics are more honest than poets. i know this
because when i am sad i make a joke before i write a poem. 

a confession: i’m sad

a fact: it’s fine

facts are linear and conditional and true at least twice a day 

don’t ask me for the time, i’ve smashed all the clocks in here. 

but when i stand by the window my face is a sundial

if you rly need 2 know you’ll have to fucking look at me.

lol 

 

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Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. She is a New York University MFA graduate, a Kundiman fellow, and editor-in-chief at pizza pi press. Her full-length collection THE MAGIC MY BODY BECOMES was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. Find her at jessrizkallah.com.