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      December 1, 2023I Gotta Fat AssHaley Winans

      and I ain’t afraid to use it. My therapist
      says trauma is stored in the hips
      and I replied that’s why I have this overflowing dump
      truck. I’ll hit a stray
      parking-lot-abandoned grocery cart with my hip
      into the metal corral cuz ya’ll don’t have the juicy gluts
      to walk ten feet. I bless you with a smörgåsbord
      when I strut by on the street. My mom packed this
      delicacy in my puberty’s
      lunchbox to make all the bitches jealous
      of my non-tradable treats.
      This three-Michelin-star feast.
      She always asks if I’m in a movie
      theater cuz I keep picking my seat. Not my fault
      this monster ass always needs to eat like Michael Phelps
      before a swim meet. Gordon Ramsey screamed
      my beef wellington booty is raw as in undercooked
      underloved underseared by the singe
      of eyes the size of sauté pans. But I’d rather be sashimi
      than well-done and sent back to the kitchen
      of mediocre missionary fuckboys. Does it confuse you?
      How I stick to my pythons and nude
      nylons like superglue? I don’t need a hollow hand
      puppet of a lover that gaslights like a candle
      in a power outage. Yes my earthquake ass snaps
      all the telephone poles and bridges like toothpicks. Yes I snuff
      his chode of a flame with my gorilla
      grip’s downpour. Yes I cause car crashes like Pokemon
      Go when they hydroplane on this pussy
      in search of a jiggly puff
      to sing them to sleep. I’m done
      being treated like chopped liver
      when I’m wagyu beef, massaged by grief
      and loves that leave me in the pasture of solitary relief.

      from #81 - Prompt Poems

      Haley Winans

      Prompt: “Write a poem about something we love about ourselves.”

      “I love writing prompt poems because they pull you out of your familiar trajectories of composing poems and plop you into another headspace where it almost feels like an unpressured task or goal to achieve. Prompts grant you the off-putting space to create poems you don’t intrinsically think about producing. It’s a Russian roulette of prompt interpretation.”