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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Simone Person is the author of Dislocate, the winner of the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest in Prose. She grew up in Michigan and Toledo, Ohio and is a dual MFA/MA at Indiana University. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Puerto del Sol, Gigantic Sequins, and Yemassee, among others.
Pill Cosby
In 2017, three men, Devin Gentry, John Geiger,
and Kevin “Scooty” Hallums, introduced a tequila-based
cocktail to their restaurant’s menu, titled a Pill Cosby,
which was a nod to Bill Cosby, who is accused of drugging
and raping over sixty women. The cocktail came topped
with empty pill capsules. When questioned, the men claimed
the Pill Cosby was meant to heighten awareness of drugging
people’s drinks.
It’s so much easier to die than anyone
tells you there’s the leaving
of your body & your body leaving you
somewhere in the rear view my body is
still stitched into that night when No
wasn’t enough but instead a challenge
maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised —
when my grandmother was my age a boy
locked her in his car let her No bounce
against the windows & although she’s never finished
the story to me I already know enough
to fill it in don’t need to ask if there’s a part
of her always anchored by a boy’s need to conquer
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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