Tyrant Rex and I made peace

        over a blunt and sips of rum.

She told me it got lonesome

        being so long out of fashion.

She puffed and mused on primate legs

        and kindly gave me a head start.

Rick Hollon (they/them or fey/fem) is a nonbinary, intersex, bi/queer author, editor, and parent from the American Midwest. Feir writing has appeared or is forthcoming in perhappened, (mac)ro(mic), Sledgehammer Lit, and Whale Road Review. Find them on Twitter at SailorTheia.