bring cigarettes,
all the poets are alcoholics
don’t think you smoke
but it’d be nice
to try our first together
co ugh l au gh c oug h lau g h
do it
and we can whistler’s mother—
faff around with realism
threewheel landscape puzzles
even armchair buffoon in limp blue
my cat has two eyes, I think,
and his ears are bigger than his head
just like you l a u gh lau g h
want a ballad? here goes:
ecce homo qui est faba
do it yourself id ipsum
baked, refried, lima, fava
ill green car au citron
left eyebrow raise if you like it
right eyebrow raise if you hate it
both eyebrows up if you’d rather
long furby l aug h lau gh la ugh
you knitted oddity,
ya sausage
rollin about town
teach me to be all translation
Jillian A. Fantin (@jilly_stardust) is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. They are the recipient of a 2021 Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and their poetry is published in The American Journal of Poetry, Sprung Formal, TIMBER, Entropy, and elsewhere.