Let’s Say Something About Life

Let’s say my phone
Doesn’t work for directions
Let’s say one cat’s kidneys
Are in worse shape than my liver
Let’s say we’re glad when we say
We’re fourteen months & counting
Let’s say a smoking cigarette
Is the most cinematic trailer for a soul

Parker Tettleton is a vegan Leo living in Oxford, Mississippi. He’s the author of Please Quiet (Ravenna Press, forthcoming 2018), Ours Mine Yours (Pitymilk Press, 2014), Greens (Thunderclap Press, 2012), & Same Opposite (Thunderclap Press, 2010). More work can be found here.