harriet salmon
Benchwarmer Put in Play After 20 Years of Sitting Down
the angries will say it was better back then but
either way
how sad it was / how lonely
felt the barter in your hands like jitters / felt it in your gut like shit / tomato tomatoe heroin heroine etc
so take your meds like they’re vitamin c gummies / chomp down and get em all up in your tooth cavities / punch the living shit outta the boxing bag / eat testosterone in the form of a thick chalk / think too hard about grimes’ relationship with elon musk / then stop comparing it to your own / eat
ironically pray or unironically pray / pray to fats domino or pray to god / either way try pray to someone nice / ask them for the flat with the bath / dig deep for some golden truth about something
sunday nap / dream in generalisations / wake up vague / take the noon to screw around / wake up to tell your bitchy friend they’re being a bitch / let em go / adios I suppose…and invite the good one in / you two can pray side by side eating dried fruit in glad wrap bags bratty punk returning to your playlists / god it’s good / refuse a line & get high on the magic of short fiction instead smell the sakura / smell the salt / get pumped for the return of the sun / lap it up milky you’re doing it this time / remodeling your insides / doing it to climb out of the hurt with ya nails breaking against the brick walls of the well / sleep / be a person that operates to their full potential on a full belly
watch / don’t watch / notice / get absolutely smacked in the tits by how
the cold biting edge of your life recedes into the fuzzy little thing you’re living now
Harriet Salmon is a country music-loving elderly care worker & English Lit student with a steady diet of ginger beer, fiction, and swear words. She often goes by Hattie because when she is called Harriet she feels like she is being told off by her mother.