Better Than Starbucks
Poetry and Fiction Journal
. . . if you love diversity and creative writing in any and every form, then you’re in the right place . . .
November 2022
Vol VII No IV
Published quarterly:
February, May, August,
and November.
I c s c w t k g it its way upward
e t o h h a o pulling out stakes too distant
b n a n i a b i b to burn as they go
u t k n c t o n u
r e e e h b g r Can’t you hear it now its like
y r c a b n an earthquake
i t p n i on s a legion geysering to unlive
t o n e d n the night and make up for lost
h f w n g T the centuries millennia ages
e t i e s h
m t h t t o c e s Theyll do the same with us in
h e h r o t the opposite direction
o e a o r core a Skyward towards the sun
n s t t n e k A Babel of impalement to
E a h e w is e cook alive in thinning air
t a m e s A a s
o r e r not crucified on our own
p t t t c d and forbidden thoughts and
h s o h o an unholy righteousness
o p p e n the not for the circling carrion fliers
f Y o t u of remorse
o t o t i e n t
e u f o n o d h vultures buzzards mosquitoes
a h p u n e e and bats picking away at our
c h a t o i r m arrogant fictions and quaint
h a r h o u c g superstitions
v d e f s r The
o e u o as we feel and scream even as
t e o t s n u d skeletons our paraded effigy
h t n n h p dead n e
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