Rainbow Flags

Let's workshop this poem that compares the surreal and chaotic journey induced metaphorically by Pazuzu with that induced by Crystal Meth

Rainbow Flags

Pazuzu will have you
speaking Latin; Crystal
Meth will have you

in a crop-top tank top,
purple, semaphoring
drum-and-bass pulses

for horns dopplering
down that main strip 
to the university, 

between cheilitis lips
a steel referee whistle
you never knew you had.

*This poem appeared in Cholla Needles (2022)

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