HE SITS IN O’HARE FOR FOR 6 HOURS

wifi fueled
       by
       orange juice
       pulp and divorce   signal
       frail

chiropractors and cosmologists
       ask about
       the marx sticker
       on my laptop
       i tell them
       “no that’s actually st.
       nicholas of myra”

they shut   they grin
       they “oh haha okay yeah”
       the fuck up   crossing
       1700 miles in a day
       the evil of it

a tattersall’d lad in the
complimentary charger row
       whisperwhinges
       “i review credit cards on youtube”
       “i’m up to 200k subs”
       “i make 85k a year deleting”
       i desire a lake of attrition
       a feta and spinach croissant
       filled with pus

financiers bully chrome and glass
       fitness tiktokers will be
       your next senators
       chicago cubs fans comprise
       the 4th largest terrorist
       organization on the planet

“i have sinned exceedingly in
thought word and
deed   through my fault
through my fault   through my
most grievous fault”
       the geese snarl at
       the shins in my brain
       the geese murder the 4,370
       engines in my shins
       (even in canada
       geese are an invasive species)

i sip an iced caramel macchiato and suck
up some mustache hairs
       they taste frankish and
       i think i’m into it

the utmost pleasures of pissing
       alone
       heaven’s ph 8.88
       dysward
       look at all this mobility
       all of these sapient tariffs

“uhhh folks all flights to the end
of all things   dallas   have been
delayed for three hours   specifically
cause you are all filthy and rotten”
       to be devoured alive
       by several
       thousand pigeons

how mirthful

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from are we rocking with this?–published by New Mundo Press

Buy the book here

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Jenkin Benson is a graduate student, musician, and poet.
New Mundo Press published his debut full-length book of poems
are we rocking with this? August 2025. Publications and music
here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson