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August 19, 2022 Poetry

Three Poems

Francesca Kritikos

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Hiring Bodyman


This city hates me

I get so tired
of waiting

for you
I groom myself

Now all I have to do
is show up at your door

& you’ll call me sweetheart
forever

I hate it here

These walls
have never heard my name

The ocean is nowhere
to be seen

but I hear
about it,

the way it takes
the color of the sky

Statement of Purpose


Supply and demand
Benadryl snack

1200 kcal
aren't you tired

of the way you're built
to never stop
wanting

If the world turned
softly
this would be too easy

Paradise Ltd.

No one else but you
has ever called me a good
investment

bought me 00 short shorts
crop tops
drinks

set on fire
everything
I want

We have all the same diseases
We all have the same
disease

You ask me where I want it
I tell you
here

is the place
where hunger
once reigned

Francesca Kritikos is a Greek-American writer and editor currently based in Chicago. She wrote the poetry collection Exercise in Desire (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022), which was selected as one of Bookshop.org's Staff Picks. She is also the author of the poetry chapbooks Animals Don't Go To Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021) and It Felt Like Worship (Sad Spell Press, 2017). Her works of poetry, nonfiction and autofiction have been published in English and Greek by Spectra, Θράκα, Wonder, Χάρτης, Blush Lit, The London Magazine and more. She is on Instagram @fmkrit.

image: David Wright


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