THREE THINGS by LENNON SHERBURNE
Fruit Leather
two weeks ago I saw
a play
about four men
stranded on a boat
they get so hungry that three of them eat
the fourth
who died self-righteously because he
did not want the others to
Eat his brother
they fillet
Mr. Self Righteous
and drape his skin over the rim of the boat
to dry in the sun like
Fruit Leather
I am calling him
Fruit Leather
because I am
polite
and a
vegetarian and
I do not think I could
Eat my brother
but our father is a lobsterman
and we have a boat
and my dad always told me I was a
Good Eater
so I moved to a city
and eat here
instead
Eliot
Bottom Growth
Lennon Sherburne (they/them) is a queer and trans journalist and creative living in Washington, D.C. You can find their work on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition but their poetry usually stays buried in their computer. Sherburne's photography has been featured at Rhizome D.C. Most of their time is spent drinking coffee and thinking about queerness.