MIDNIGHT SNACK

ON WRITING

I TITLE THIS 'LATE SPRING MELANCHOLY' ⇒ THIS IS A HAIKU

LAST WEEK, I WAS WORRIED MY LUNGS COULDN’T HANDLE THE PROPOFOL, I’D BEEN VAPING TOO MUCH GLYCOL. TODAY,
the road was black, hot.
If I run into traffic,
will everyone stop?
Seeking is a graduate student in a quantitative field at one of the Washington D.C schools named after the nation's most famous enslaver. He was born-and-raised in the northernmost subtropical place. He loves long-form stories, invented worlds, and post-scarcity dreams. He has poems in the first Bullshit Anthology and Ayaskala Magazine. He has a forthcoming poem in Simple Machines Vol.2.