J. Bradley
Poetry
Lesson Plan
Son, I cannot teach you
how to get so much ass
penicillin cultures grow
from your tongue.
What I can show you:
how to swagger
like a flask on prom night
how to practice getting it on
using an empty fist,
your imagination
how to love like broken
bubble wrap
One day, you will wear hickeys
like a varsity jacket. Your jangly
morning-after walk will be
all the thank you letters I'll need.
Why There Are No More Unicorns, My Child
It's a little known fact
yeast infections preyed
on unicorns. We won
because they discharged
rainbow sprinkled cupcakes;
that's why when you eat one
you can't quite rinse out
the aftertaste of extinction.