"Ride W Favor" by Kamden Hilliard

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 20, 2018   Ride W Favor   Kamden Hilliard

No tears No tips No meters No nips [well mayb] No Lyft No Uber No 1-8 hundo But he do wanna kno How yu             been? Where'd yu go? & yu kno yu best talk harder 2 pin his desire Even tho we didn't start the fire yu wait 4 the punchlite The lines of blinker             Yu ask of Mom & Dad & late nite D sires—dimes o' lite Till so close yu must b Southwest Delta American Air lines Here here is gud don't worry So he             pop the hood & yu roll in Left 'em full gud on the queerer questions of queer kin -ship What danger cost 2 much    patron saint of patrón? Pain 2 paper alchemy?             Skycap'n of the pitiful sellin' out damn spot!? My politic ain't got a pot dealer 2 piss off I'm peppery—I'm emphatic as an amphetamine Can't             cut myself out of me in2 the blank holes of nite The whole pre-fires The whole —Okay okay I started the firelol boring in2 the air via port Bony-ass             horizon I'm drug poor I pay my way                Copyright © 2018 Kamden Hilliard. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "Airports materialize the intersection of surveillance, commerce, and desire in the splitting of people between citizen and other. It's rough stuff. So, I wanted to consider how or why one gained access to such a place. I wanted to reflect upon the propulsive substances of desire." —Kamden Hilliard   Kamden Hilliard is the author of Perceived Distance from Impact (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) and Distress Tolerance (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016). They are a graduate fellow at The Iowa Writers' Workshop and live in Iowa City, Iowa. Poetry by Hilliard   Perceived Distance from Impact (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) "The Burn" by Naomi Shihab Nye "A Journey" by Nikki Giovanni "Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK" by Bianca Stone August Guest Editor: Evie Shockley   Thanks to Evie Shockley, author of semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Shockley and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038