I’M WRITING A POEM ABOUT ALL THE THINGS I DON’T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT

 Vee Amey

Necromancy; the man who murmured "what the fuck" at Starbucks

when I peed in the men's bathroom; patricide; frizzy curls; funeral flowers;

turning 40; Botox®; Twenty-four rejection letters for a poem titled,

"Circle Jerks: A Ghazal"; Ann Baker and her cliché—once an addict,

always an addict; handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser; swallowing

a 60 piece; how easy it is to blame others for crack habit; how easy it is to make

crack cocaine if you have cocaine; Miranda rights; rape; thrown into a retention

pond; how blood freezes only after the body dies.

Vee is an MFA graduate from the University of Central Florida. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Tin House, Hobart, Juked, Rhino, and other literary journals. She lives with her four rescue pitbulls and husband in the South.