aspiring enigma
︎︎︎︎︎ Anna Dorn
︎ Aug 2, 2023
everyone is so cute
with their stale politics
and misguided rage
all my friends
are pregnant (human life)
and i’m also
pregnant (demented ideas)
[outlines novel]
smashes vanity mirror with kneecap
shoots bb gun at coyote
makes fist around shard of glass
trying to stop
“expressing myself”
because it’s tacky
grotesque, humiliating
and completely unbecoming
on a woman my age
i fail,
obviously
with their stale politics
and misguided rage
all my friends
are pregnant (human life)
and i’m also
pregnant (demented ideas)
[outlines novel]
smashes vanity mirror with kneecap
shoots bb gun at coyote
makes fist around shard of glass
trying to stop
“expressing myself”
because it’s tacky
grotesque, humiliating
and completely unbecoming
on a woman my age
i fail,
obviously
Anna Dorn is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her next book Perfume & Pain is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. @___adorn
Also by Anna: hot ghost