by Juhi Karnalkar
what max said before climbing into her spaceship
what about the velocity of things
the ever-fleeting
flame-ejected titanium shell
battery jitter and drain / defunct-human touch
memory flakes / show-and-tell facebook
touchscreen splendor / fingerdy-linger
tweedledee twitter / gaba to creatine
ping pong brain thing / tweedledum marketing
dumbed-down googley everything
machine unlearning / lowest common
denominators / normalized
violence sublimated into viral cuisine
the new connectivity
the new reflexivity / the new mediocrity
how is it everyone is doing so great
marketing prosperity / so much perfection
at the center of things
rate me / rate her / rate him / oh ranking queens
like / heart
rage face / emoji heaven
eternal fabric / social soul medium
reality drivel / cacophony of tedium
dead narrative
confetti attention / scatter box
soul flattened to ME
soul flattened to screen
Koss is a queer writer and artist with an MFA from SAIC. She has work in or forthcoming in Diode Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Hobart, North Dakota Review, Feral, Chiron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rat’s Ass Review, and others. She also has work in Best Small Fictions 2020 and Kissing Dynamite’s Punk Anthology. Keep up with Koss on Twitter @Koss51209969 and Instagram @koss_singular. Her website is http://koss-works.com.
Juhi Karnalkar is a student at the University of Texas at Dallas. Interested in art for as long as she can remember, she works with digital and traditional drawing and design. She finds inspiration in stories, nature, and nostalgia. Outside of art, she loves knitting, writing, and film editing. Twitter: @jkarnalkar