EVERYTHING IS BUZZING BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN A BAD WAY!!!!
Ladies and gentlemen and distinguished guests,
I am honoured nay Delighted
to announce that I am
Back On My Bullshit
(by which i mean my antidepressants)
by which I mean
I left my mental illness in the discount halloween candy aisle of a CVS like a bad father
and I Feel Great
i feel great
i feel gggrrrreAT
I am the only person under thirty with my phone off silent
I am delighted
to announce my decision
to keep being
keep breathing
keep the feeling
BY WHICH I MEAN
Happiness was born under a heat lamp at the 47th street red line station
Lake Shore Drive cracked me open like a walnut
I never knew what my insides felt like before
BY WHICH I MEAN
We all come from a somewhere in the middle of a nowhere
and
We all sit at a window and wait for rain sometimes like it’s a taxicab that will take us
somewhere else and
It’s okay!
to plagiarise a seven page paper as long as you send a thank you note
and
honestly? the best meal you can cook for yourself is
white wine poured into half a hollowed out cantaloupe
and
I should really have my own show on the Food Network by now
BY WHICH I MEAN
Do you ever FEEL
like you are an investigative reporter of Good Things?
Assigned
to find every Moment Comma Good
and file it away with all the other
Moments Comma Miscellaneous
in a manila envelope
for a Cosmic Career Bureaucrat
in her Galactic Glittering Pantsuit
to read at her desk and annotate and maybe smile
BY WHICH I MEAN
The universe wakes me up because it needs ME to be listening
(at five o’clock in the morning)
I am the Watchdog For The World
and I am DELIGHTED
to announce that it’s doing great.
Felix Lecocq is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, studying English Language/Literature and Creative Writing. His poems have been published by 3Elements Review, yell/shout/scream, and the Young Chicago Authors' Queeriosity Zine, and his journalism has been published by Teen Vogue and Londnr Magazine.