Cat Cotsell
TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK
Nonlinear progress is a bit too much for
us sheltered millennial snowflakes,
thinks my Nan
“You’ve got to learn to roll with the punches
And not get upset at every little thing”
She says
The woman who yelled at me
For holding my girlfriend’s hand at church.
I’ll take nonlinear progress, I tell her
Over putting the bloody country in reverse
When we’re halfway up a hill.
Cat Cotsell’s writing has appeared in FIVE:2:ONE, FIRST, Ricky’s Back Yard, and qommunicate’s second volume of Hashtag Queer. They currently live in the Australian capital territory with three other nerds.
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