Swing Justice

(this is a calculation)

I am this:

your Hot Ticket Babe:
something tangible pressed
against the pixels “begging for”
C E N S O R S H I P, a: # or
1between the digits2th demands

And you are:

hmm,               melee or messy spectacle
who’s even standing
                        the Christ figure cast
it’s just a job interview
                        but lo,              our savior

So they are:

lensed henchmen crouched with blood
shot eyes through tubes
tied, and tangled, legs cramping for that
one-perfect
history feeds in multitudes, like fish

What’s left is:

I’ll say! shout out to everyone muddling through
all this really triggering b u l l s h i t
and there will be
some <333s, or little clapping hands but this
still tastes (somewhat) better than boys will

be> b o > y >>>s>?

Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a poet and writer from Virginia, currently based in Scotland. Meredith's poetry is published or forthcoming in The London Magazine, Puerto del Sol, trampset, Cream City Review, Gutter, and elsewhere.