by Sadie Dupuis
Deftly I network
out of the thrum
to my phantom subterranea
Promos hovering
lo like bats
the flying dream
where you frantically paddle
your claws off the porn
Do you still want
to be my duplicate
Does my voice offer
a genial uncanny
So glum all twisted
in a slipshod knot
It’s me conning my way into the gleaming credentials
vs me who can’t just go get a new one
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, which recently launched a weekly poetry journal, and holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Black Ocean); poems have appeared in outlets including jubilat, Sixth Finch, and Rolling Stone.