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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Aaron Samuels is the author of Yarmulkes & Fitted caps, released by Write Bloody Publishing. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Asylum Arts, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Samuels is a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective and ranked 3rd place at the Individual World Poetry Slam. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he serves as Co-Founder and COO of Blavity Inc.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Mario
Vin Diesel has his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese
The first stop is obviously the ball pit. Vin knows
as soon as he lands, he will sink right to the bottom
but he jumps anyways. After all, it is his birthday
and all of his friends showed up on time.
He is turning six, or forty-seven, and he is
the largest person in the room — at least four times
the size of the man in the Chuck E. Cheese costume
sweating through his fur. But today, Vin is not interested
in breaking another Skee-Ball machine, or punching
through the glass to take as many Chinese-finger-traps
as he can hold. All Vin wants to do is float in a pile
of plastic spheres as his friends laugh and smile
and do anything besides run away, and it is July
and the whole room is sweating and smells
like cheese and cola and Vin has never had a friend
that wasn’t afraid of him
and it is getting harder to tell the difference between
a real life monster and a Chuck E. Cheese mascot
but Vin is not afraid of either, Vin showed up
for the same reason as everyone else,
to slide down a plastic tube and jump
from one world to another,
to find a monster he wasn’t afraid of
and laugh until it became small enough
to put in his pocket.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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