not everyone can weigh the difference
between cheesecake with strawberry or chocolate
in a single heartbeat and just go with one
or the other
very few people will just walk into nowhere
and not really care whether or not they get where
they are going because part of them already believes
they are exactly where they should be
many people lost their fathers to embarrassing deaths
and go on to live and tell the tale over cheap beers
in backwater pool halls where the bartender
wears a face of knowing loss
only you shared a glass of sweet tea with me
fried okra and calamity pressing at future windows
where we promised that if only we could figure it all out
we’d share that with each other, too
Jeanette Powers is a working class non-binary artist and poet living in the deep country of Missouri's Northern Ozarks. Listen to them on RISK! Podcast, Lawrence edition and pick up their latest chap, "Gasconade" by NightBallet Press. Powers runs the generative performing arts venue, Uptown Arts Bar, and is a fellow at Osage Arts Community.jeanettepowers.com @novel_cliche
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Jeanette Powers
my pronouns are she/them
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Executive Director Uptown Arts Bar
Resident Fellow Osage Arts Community
Co-Founder Stubborn Mule Press
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