One of my poems has been published on a site!
Cotangents of Yevgeny
-a teenage love story
Johanna Salinas
Part 1
Dec. 20, 2012
“I hope the
apocalypse
will be as pretty as
you!”
Yevgeny shouts
as he forgets
himself into the
brown ankle deep
puddle
he insists is a pond.
His Queen, Yudina,
blushes
a rosy bouquet as
her virginal
heart snaps
this moment into
her Memory Museum.
Please Yevgeny,
please
don’t break her
virginal
heart. Dang it!
Get yourself out
of the mud and
into her love!
Do it now
before she realizes
what a total loser
you are.
Do it now
before the earth
caves in
with the stars.
Part 2
Dec. 21, 2012
“Welcome to the
nightmare!”
Yevgeny sang as he
hid from the future
under a pile of dead
leaves,
but lost himself
in the darkness
of a vacuum
of beautiful things.
Dec. 22, 2012
“I dreamed
we were dead,”
Yudina breathed.
“And I remember being
so happy.”
Part 3
A Letter to Yevgeny From His Queen
Dear Goofball,
Somewhere in heaven,
an angel must be
fainting from madness
because I made a wish
on the constellation
of pimples below your
eyes.
Because tossing
well-earned money
down a well
just isn’t enough
to contain my
adoration of YOU.
Killing those dumb
dinosaurs
couldn’t have said it
more.
Streets graffiti me
with neon and traffic
but all I know is
you.
All I see is your
silvery surprised blink
as I dance along to
the parade song
stuck in your head.
Somewhere a village
is being deprived
of an idiot because
I wished for you.
*the opposite of a tangent
