Once upon a time they fell in love quite
fast even by today’s standards. No app was
used. They were injected with ghostbuster
green goop that melted down
their elbows to grease
lightning and john travolta married them in
an ambulance because elvis was busy
eating peanut butter. In the end
that’s all that matters. The happy
couple honeymooned on
an eclipse and had sex but went
blind. They conceived a child, definitely a
pisces, likely vegan, who will end up as a poet or, at least,
gluten free. In the darkest moment of their
hangover, they buy her a notebook with a quote
no one knows. When she is old enough,
they’ll send her to boarding school and she will
learn how to surf or skate, but mostly how to
complain about other people. She’ll choose
hufflepuff to be politically correct and
at one point become a thin
mint. Her parents will be proud prima cream
puffs and throw her ivy league & housewifery
themed birthday parties. The gift bags will contain make your own
meme kits. Satire is crafty, moms love it.
She will break her heart and
her liver on sleeping beauty’s anxiety meds,
realizing that women’s clothing has no pockets.
Her father will practice quarterback
religion and she will love advertisement jingles
over poetry. She will laugh at every pun and find sadness
only in empty pie crusts. She will breathe in silly puddy
to make herself matronly, reapply personality
by MAC on the hour, be spongebob’s best friend,
but less pink. So vogue it will tear her apart,
that notebook will be melted down
to compost and fed to worms for her
vegetable garden in which she will meet
a real human being. An app will be used to speed
up the process, but this time, with elvis.
Anna Antongiorgi is a writer, choreographer, and dancer originally from Redondo Beach, California. She received her B.A. in English cum laude from Harvard, Minoring in Theatre, Dance, and Media, in May 2019. Her poetry has been previously featured in The Dying Dahlia Review. She is working toward her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School while pursuing dance and choreography in New York City.
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