Kristine Brown: Modernity
Photo: Joanna C. Valente
Modernity
last Friday laughed like some garbage disposal
writing
itself
a faded pink slip, something resembling
the swollen backs of our mouths, long
undermined our tired
jaws, drying
lips.
the new girl confessed to
us all that she didn’t know
how to make coffee, and could not
feel between beige on one’s cheeks
and the world’s thinnest splinters.
religion
was never her
dehydrated excuse
and
that rich aunt only visited
every
five
years
but nothing beats your Keurig,
not even the bravest toaster
when the AC works with
a dignity
she never learned
to spell.
Kristine Brown is a law student who shuffles between poetry, prose, data entry, and wishing she could properly fly a kite. Her writing appears in Hobart, Truffle Magazine, Burning House Press, Nice Cage, among others. She has written one novel, Connie Undone.
