Destini Baylis Adams

Dear young poets, you should know I’ll sleep with the best ones. Pulitzer pussy, Guggenheim gooch, Hugo anything — I’m good with Booker bastards in bed. PEN is dependent on tradition & individual talent, your remarkable ability to live & die both on the page and in the air — face down. God, they know devotion so well. Contain multitudes and mommy issues. They can abandon one thing for the next muse. Those stars are like dead. Did you know that? Keep counting them, baby.

after Taylor Byas Hey, girl. I was at your old house just now. They’re trying to do you dirty. Did you know they turned that place into a museum? They even made a replica of that old white housecoat and stuck it on a mannequin in your bedroom near your desk like a headless maid waiting for you to go downstairs so she can snoop through your shit. Speaking of which, the docent is uncomfortable talking about your letters.

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