instructions for becoming a captain

by Vevna Forrow

twizzler tie your black sea hair back

tuck in a weather balloon sweater cap

helicopter pencil on a cookie cutter moustache

swap your foam beer for whoopie cushion water 

[concealed in a sunchoked crumpler paper lunch bag]

wear an XL denim jacket  & 9 ½ Nordvik boots

net laugh with the guys [net laugh at the guys]

even when the sinking crabby patty jokes make zero stinking sense

paspatou steer the wheel [blindfolded]

pluto pretend you’re the only one in a fish suit onboard

and voyager whisper to yourself aloud:

this is my deep down jellyfish jam dream

i will sail towards every sky constellation 

i will sail with my heart on the elysium edge

without boy blue boy fear

Vevna Forrow (Jazz Marie Kaur) is an experimental visual designer and queer poet originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, but resides in Southern Nevada. Work of hers appears in the Lothlorien Journal, Kindergarten Mag, diacritics – DVAN, Phantom Kangaroo, and Oddball Magazine.