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
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.