i’m not from paris if
that’s what you’re thinking
a homeless man asked me
if i was brazilian
you could google it
but i wouldn’t
i walk around my house
very quietly
going extinct
scurrying &
jotting things down
erotic probiotic
tranquil microplastics
baby roses
periwinkle prose
postmodern dandy
casually trending
& clutching my pearls
the dialectic,
killing me
that’s what you’re thinking
a homeless man asked me
if i was brazilian
you could google it
but i wouldn’t
i walk around my house
very quietly
going extinct
scurrying &
jotting things down
erotic probiotic
tranquil microplastics
baby roses
periwinkle prose
postmodern dandy
casually trending
& clutching my pearls
the dialectic,
killing me
Anna Dorn is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her next book Perfume & Pain is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. @___adorn