plants a flag under our skin
The Thing must be You
The Thing must be Me
The Thing must be Us
in each other's company
How the distance takes our shape
when we don't choose a form to
just fucking communicate
Lights out; crawl around within
No surrender for the win
You're suspecting Me
I'm suspecting You
They're suspecting Us;
Seeing red when we are blue
Last swig of that J & B;
Let's end this here with the flames
The real thing, we'll never see
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Casey Renee Kiser is a punk poet with a horror-quirk-twist. Her new release Altered States of The Unflinching Souls with fellow indie poet, J. J. Campbell is due out late Summer 2024, and Confessions of A D3AD Petal early Spring 2025. She runs a small independent press in Kentucky.