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Kamden Hilliard

Self Portrait Under Blanket On United Flight UA495

No1’d answer my needful       YES

eff I’d said next 2 him / so the dress Yes

 

No doomboi 2000 [worry free Deli

very fee] but a plaintive rest yes

 

Jack’d up in His made mind He all

feisty 4 fucc up my ooo tex-mex yes

 

I’ve consented 2 publik incandescentcy

not His black beans only mess Yes

 

I do ownership but He could not [at least]

not not yet not yet not y!et ye!t ye!s!  !!!

 

I 2 hav deposed my decomposed

desire but the nigga is wet Yes

 

I am enjoying it     not because I shan’t

b [lemme tell yu sum shet    yas

 

1nce I tuned a man’s ocean of salt 

dry w hand (I’m a thin subset o’ yes)]

 

“The Thong Song” 2 is a sing & I

let his freedom ringme in2 debt Yes 

 

I will watch THE FREE STATE OF JONES

even tho it’s mad off brand I let [yes

 

let] Him choose a snack box 2 Whiskey

a while after His lessening is so yessening

 

I am thinking of Molly Bloom I am yes

I am thinking yes thinking yes yes   yes

 

 

Kamden Hilliard is a reader at Gigantic Sequins, an editor at Jellyfish Magazine, and goes by Kam. They got posi vibes from The Ucross Foundation, The Davidson Institute, and Callaloo. The author of two chapbooks: Distress Tolerance (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016) and Perceived Distance From Impact (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), Kam stays busy. Find their work in The Black Warrior Review, West Branch, Salt Hill, and other sunspots.

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