Hashtag v. Literati by Stephanie Guo

After Julia Turner

(sell me your straight-faced

nonsense poetry.) sell me your 

penumbra, your nothing is a nothing

except the sun, your #inanelylovely,

your #thesun’sabum, your 

#screwthelinebreaksi’vegotthis, your

#puristsgonnahate. sell me 

the strappings of your similes, the

tried and trope, the truism’s that ain’t quite

aphorisms, the witticisms and –isms and pisms

and solipsisms… and yes, 

yes, i could go around licking my fingers

but (hell) you do it already,

so I won’t. octothorpes unite!squirt ink!fillpens!we

 #wannabeliterarydevicecanyouletusin?

Author bits: 

Stephanie Guo's secret weakness is marzipan, although Turkish Delight comes in at a close second. She has previously been published in Hanging Loose, Front Porch Review, and Cha.