Poem by Kate Van Petten
Kate Van Petten (they/them) is a queer and non-binary poet and songwriter based in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Their first audiobook is forthcoming in Hello America Stereo Cassette, and their second full-length album of music is set to release in 2023 with Dance Cry Dance records. You can find their music under ‘Baddy Gold’ and their poems in zines floating around Seattle coffee shops.
You know how people are bad with kids well
I am bad with adults by ponds in suburban
Photographs in vanity fear footnotes say there’s more
Water on the moon than we think seven billion saw
It differently the other planet in habitable zone 40 darkyears
Away the swan of Aquarius keeps joking about
Death and trying not to read the news
Brain of it squeezes truth out of memory
So how can anyone love anything when
One day construction the next Best Tree gone
Might as well find a new one to keep the paper talking
Not sweet and innocent but sweet and oblivious
I like people who notice & say brilliant things occasionally
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