everybody in general
by Joshua Escobar
let’s kiss
Frank as in Frankenstein
let’s kiss
people in cages
let’s kiss
nebulae double-crossed
let's kiss
straight people mauling whatever they love
let's kiss
the sexuality of other cities
let’s kiss
unused doctrines & volumes of knowledge
let’s kiss
lovers playing up the doom
let’s kiss
feathers vs. chasm
let’s kiss
chasm vs. feathers
let’s kiss
Saint Francisco of the Latin Exes
let’s kiss
agony to death
let’s kiss
R.A.'s BOMBNESS
let’s kiss
a baby queer's hoe streak
let’s kiss
another sexy guy’s disinterest
let’s kiss
the fruity aftertaste of Lucifer’s skull & bones soup
let’s kiss
youth drilled anew
even as it’s impossible to see each other
let’s kiss
Joshua Escobar is the author of the chapbooks Caljforkya Voltage and xxox fm, as well as the new full-length collection about being a deejay in a queer dystopia, Bareback Nightfall (Noemi Press, 2020). He holds a Master's from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, as well as from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He is a regional chair (California) for CantoMundo, and the co-founder of the all-ages zine, Orange Mercury. He teaches at Santa Barbara City College, and reviews poetry collections in his free time.
IG: djashtrae17. "everybody in general" was previously published in the Brooklyn Rail.
For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs is a curated collaboration between Francisco Aragón at Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, and Emma Trelles at the Best American Poetry blog.
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