sadness dies badly like a waiting room plant
every body is mostly water
and will still only sink or float
it’s so maddening
it takes me two hours to finish
an apple
sometimes the human in me
likes to go away on vacation
so what i am can strut
into the room for the first time
your whole life is trying
to become something
that you could stand to watch
no one ever tells you that
that’s why our eyes
are on the outside
Chelsea Tadeyeske is a poet, performer and bookmaker from Milwaukee, WI where she edits Pitymilk Press. She's released several chapbooks including, if you bend it backwards nothing really happens (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2016), the short story collection Princess Diana (bathmatics, 2019), and the floor of a cage floating above the floor of a house(bathmatics, 2020). She hates capitalism and refuses to pay for a website, so a modest digital folder of her work can be found at chelseatadeyeske.wordpress.com. She is a Virgo sun/Libra rising/Aquarius moon born in the year of the snake. She tweets @pitymilk.
