Someone To Speak For Me
It is useless knowing a language anymore
when there are computers to know it for you.
I am forgetting the keyboard keys.
I am forgetting my name
and the name of the screen.
I do not need it. I do not need
to know what I do not know.
Query the word for words for my open mouth.
Hello I am leaving hello right
here on the inside of my
—
and thought I would give you an updated bio:
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. You can find info on his poetry collections and chapbooks, as well as his writing on politics and culture, at his newsletter: Everything Is Horrible.
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I feel this to my bones. It’s hard to resist. It pushes from every corner.