The Rules of Attraction
‘she always knew it was going to be like that’
walk down Sunset Boulevard
in the ultramarine glow
of my body
snatched by aliens
drink warm milk
from the q-tipped ear
of a former child
star now a hologram
better looking than
the original
but sadder too
so when he moves
those glittery lips
to tell me
i am highly favored by the aliens
&
the fate of the world is in my belly
&
the fate shall be named
RIVER PHOENIX™
i can see that he already knows
i won’t be the one
to save us
instead i’ll bury
it under the lawns
now dying of thirst
at the Hollywood Forever
Cemetery
where i have been delivered
to lounge eternally on
pink & blue
webbed vinyl
smoking platinum Cigaronne’s
& blinking
into the sun.
Meghann Boltz is a poet living in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of East Anglia and her work has appeared / is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, Peach Mag, glitterMOB, Dream Pop, and Lor. Her first chapbook rebel/blonde is coming June 2018 from Bottlecap Press.
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