Blech

preparing to and boom
heart palpitations around four am
like when you handwrite 
a number on a document
and then you don’t have white-out
so you try to alter it and fix it so it looks like 
the number you intended to write 
but it just doesn’t

nah (it’s worse than that)

i would love my brain
to just let me go for it

don’t forget
i’m in charge ;) haha

drip it on the counter 

were you aiming for my mouth?

this water and oil experiment is trash but
there’s a lot of excitement when
i want to flirt (i feel
angry too)


Ana Carrete is the author of Girlfriend Cosplay (Burn All Books, 2019), Non-Final Non-Girl (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2018), Naíf y Kawaii (Editorial Gigante, 2014), and Baby Babe (CCM, 2012). Her second full-length collection, Blush and Blink, is being published by Lang Books (2022).