Cento after Irvine Welsh.
Along the way, our dreams crumbled.
It’s alright for some.
It’s just not enough for me.
Get a fucking life for yourself
and learn how to shag properly!!!
I’m thinking of records
books
clubs
drugs
and fresh paint on canvas.
We are all basically the same
and all we have is each other.
When all this is in your head
it has to come out into your life.
If it doesn’t, you get crushed.
I’m not going to get crushed.
C. E. Hoffman (they / them) was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, Alberta (not necessarily in that order). A grant recipient, Writerβs Union of Canada member, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest, theyβve been published widely online and in print since 2010, and edited Punk Monk Magazine since 2012.
Their #OwnVoices short story collection SLUTS AND WHORES is available via Thurston Howl Publications, their chapbook BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE is out from Alien Buddha Press, and Bottlecap Press just released their second poetry chapbook, GHOSTS, TROLLS, AND OTHER THINGS ON THE INTERNET. Find more weirdness at cehoffman.net and follow them on Twitter @CEHoffman2.