Infinite Scroll – Gabrielle Griot
November 19, 2022
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
before the world ends I break
up with someone I don’t care about
and as the world ends I wonder
if he’s lonely out there with the world
ending all around us
ANON
i feel like a spy in my own life, i tell the community acupuncturist and she switches the setting on the christmas lights. i’m passing notes with an anime ghost and it all feels like an impractical joke like he might just explode from the wedding cake at any moment and remind me he doesn’t need another pen pal. i had one once: we were fifteen and he emailed me about poetry and all the sex he was having with his girlfriends. later he wrote that nobody knew him the way i did and i was disappointed because i didn’t believe he really knew me at all. these days i redirect my longing in champagne sparkles and dream in analogue: angel dust strung up like tinsel pinning me beneath the blackout curtains and pulsing til i feel it but I’M IN LOVE with the artificiality of potential I’M IN LOVE with the idea of someone meeting me and wanting to keep me forever and ever the unmitigated self a beneficiary the frenzied yearning of another like the time i passed by my origin story on the staircase at the simulation frat house aphrodite in chinese polyester sour apple and fool’s gold space-dyed across alcoholic limbs and i knew it then, the way you know someone is a stranger but they’ll be significant somehow and he was and it was never any good but then again neither were we
FINITE JEST
for a moment last night
I thought I had it all
the whole goddamn party
the cake and the ceramic throne
queen of fish sauce fingers
hot dog in my hallway and can’t stop
eating where I shit
but not choking comes in handy
sometimes it all goes in in in
nothing comes out
hot enough to tip the scales
manic depressive nightmare woman
fossil-numb in a velvet skirt
not like other girls
the American edition