DISCORD(ANT)

By C. M. Gigliotti

Hello lovely bugs! Last week we brought you a buzzworthy bee man poem by Charlotte Kerr, this week we have the great pleasure of bringing you something which echoes deeply the internet anthill (discord?). We love this piece by C. M. Gigliotti and we hope you will too… I mean, there goes another day, another poem, another think piece about thirst trapping assassins… the internet we love to love to hate (maybe we should learn to take a compliment too!)

eNJoY (:

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DISCORD(ANT)

if I was gonna learn how to do this for anyone
it would be for YOU bc I’ve never even
been blindfolded

as in the beginning
I post & tell no one
my plans (are mine)
but then come running to the watering hole

in my defense
all I said was I liked your words
you dragged me into this
fever

yeah I write fanfiction
but in a far deeper
& more intellectual way
than you ever will

god why do you have to be so close & so far
[BEAT] “I want to go home”
[channel fills with laughter]

thanks, stop.

is there sweeter unmusic than late-nite bleeps
with the middle note hollowed out?

but jesus christ it’s manic in here

I need a formula:
gc microdose + dm overdose → let simmer

picture two dozen dark ships passing in the night

born on the cusp
if I asked you [what’s my generation]
you might slap me across the face
& I might come or die or both

nobody checks their kinks at the door
I’m such an Actor but some shows are unsustainable

when I typed [lol] I meant [do u want to run away together]

note to self:
learn how to take
a fucking compliment
here & on the main server
forever & ever amen

try to shore yourself up
you’re still lost before you’ve begun

no beta we die like I do when your icon goes blank

taking breaks b/w revelations
of our intersections
mapping your gorgeous sprawl on
my hardwood floor

the truth is
we’re an army of workers
in service of a queen we can’t see
but we cluster up & rub antennae
as if we can

anything else I’m just pretending to do anymore
stay put in my armchair → snag the sleeve of your attention

your stories reminded me of my softness for a *yelp*

the YouTubers say the Beatles were basically this???

there are three green eyes on this monster
& they form an ellipsis

it’s just a lil crush I tell every friend
I can think of it’s not like I—

oops there goes another “day” of “bettering” “myself”

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About the hot poet: C. M. Gigliotti (she/her) is a US-born, Berlin-based multi-hyphenate artist. She holds an MA in English from Central Connecticut State University and a BA in Creative Writing from the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. Her work has appeared in Longreads, VIA, Beatdom, Scraps, Songs of Eretz, Prose Poems, and DoveTales: Writing for Peace, among others.

Find her on her Linktree

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ooooof we are nearing the last month of our hot poet features! What in the world will become of this substack? What in the world will become of the world? IDK but I guess we need to stick around to find out! (tell ur friends)

xoxo PTK