Hardline

Nothing is as alive as the way hate can make me feel.
The pleasure of loathing, like silk in the shower,
an iron-plated pool of magnets, a 10 a.m. house fire, a love song
to a drunk. The wild purple of it, the evening sun of it.
The getting enough of it.

I buried into the fissure, the glow!
How could I not be drawn in? Spun down?

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Micky Bayonne is an artist and educator from the Gulf Coast. In 2020, they earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Their work has been published by the Academy of American Poets and The Rumpus. They currently live in Western Massachusetts. .