TRACES Spring 2013 | Page 6

She names her pets things like Angus

Do you know what I mean

The cars

She counts

Three blue in a row

She’s alive

Only two, she’s splintered

She knows things like

The male seahorse carries the offspring

And when the stoner kids say hi

I bet she feels cool?

The sheik of her Arab palace

Pointy shoes and flying carpets

the benefits of green spaces

greens like Jiminy Cricket

a conscience green.

Hello everybody*

Is a failed suicide attempt

Her 300 pound Gorilla,

Gigi

Moves the lazy chair

over to the couch

the mall rats crest

wasn’t enough for you

kept saying you’d never been in love

double stuffed regret of an Oreo.

10 sets of 3.14 she did

she always was a better friend than I

-Kendall Snee

Beat/Rant Poetry