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1 poem

by Ivanna Baranova

Ivanna Baranova is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her work has appeared in ÄLPHÄ (Metatron Press), glitterMOB, Poetry Is Dead, Hobart, The Puritan, and elsewhere.

aloe

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how can i


ask you


to max me


out in a way

 

that’s edgy?


the favor


being both a kind

 

of “fuck you”

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and a “you complete

 

me baby”


at best


how to be

​

your new

 

translucent

 

heaven


given my


low gleam


in this eternal

 

rhinestone

​

aptitude


of the white

 

imagination


sorry


i lose


and make the money

 

spend the money

 

become


the money


all so


you’ll keep me


in your pocket


like aloe-infused

 

kleenex


like cash cash cash

 

in this emergent

 

corporate utopia

 

everything shines

 

green

​

like that


even the mornings

 

reek of lime


even the shitty cacti

 

reverberate

 

emerald


no recourse

 

non-financial

 

non-carbonated

 

non-clean


lately


we discuss


capital


in the act


of fictive


ascension


incanting


the ungettable

 

these days


has anyway

​

become

 

my vague

 

little brand

 

of heaven

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