Simone Person is the author of Dislocate, the winner of the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest in Prose. She grew up in Michigan and Toledo, Ohio and is a dual MFA/MA at Indiana University. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Puerto del Sol, Gigantic Sequins, and Yemassee, among others.



Also by Simone Person: Dislocate Five Poems Bunny Man


Simone Person

Pill Cosby

In 2017, three men, Devin Gentry, John Geiger, and Kevin “Scooty” Hallums, introduced a tequila-based cocktail to their restaurant’s menu, titled a Pill Cosby, which was a nod to Bill Cosby, who is accused of drugging and raping over sixty women. The cocktail came topped with empty pill capsules. When questioned, the men claimed the Pill Cosby was meant to heighten awareness of drugging people’s drinks.

It’s so much easier to die than anyone tells you there’s the leaving of your body & your body leaving you somewhere in the rear view my body is still stitched into that night when No wasn’t enough but instead a challenge maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised — when my grandmother was my age a boy locked her in his car let her No bounce against the windows & although she’s never finished the story to me I already know enough to fill it in don’t need to ask if there’s a part of her always anchored by a boy’s need to conquer



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