Cheryl Caesar
Melissa Rein Lively, off rein and lively
Finally we meet
the end of the road.
I’ve been looking
forward to this shit
all my fucking life.
So, Target, I’m not playing
any more fucking games. This shit’s
fucking over. This shit’s aaalll
fucking over. This.
Shit’s.
Fucking.
Over.
This
shit’s over
this shit’s over
this shit’s over this
shit’s over this shit’s over
this shit’s over this shit’s over this
shit’s over this shit’s over yay this shit’s over
yay wooh yay
fucking shit. Get that shit
off the shelves. I don’t want
any of that shit. Get it outta here.
Fuck this shit.
Fuck this shit.
No, I’m not
doing it. I’m not
doing it. No. I’m not doing
it. We don’t want any
of this anymore. This is over.
No uh uh no.
—Submitted on 07/06/2020
Cheryl Caesar is the author of Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era (Thurston Howl Publications, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Prachya Review, Panoply, Light, Origami Poems Project, Ponder Savant, and other journals, as well as in the anthology Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars (Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2019), edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka. Caesar holds a PhD in comparative literature from the Sorbonne. She teaches writing at Michigan State University.
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