Melanie Farley

the gender is gemini (birthday poem)

please just
let me over this hill and coast awhile

(god that a nap could quench it)

segway a song called
nobody: nobody reads anymore; nobody knows what to do about
it

I tried it in pictures:

just let me bleed in peace I said let me

slide ass first down concrete my blood a chem trail even

Lana believes in (everybody’s with ME tonight) just let me

read and be terrified guts

strewn about licorice it’s all fine really just promise me you

have to. promise.

that no bro anywhere

will find me

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Melanie Farley is a poet in Philadelphia. She's the author of a chapbook, things we have in writing POEMS (for Z) (dancing girl press 2017). In 2017, she performed, "coughing is a form of love" at UPenn's Institute of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with composer Joe Pfender. Her poems have also been published in Blue World Literary Journal, Entropy, and more. She holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Find her on instagram @poet4sale.