Farrah Moan Doesn’t Emphasize, She Highlights

By Alex Carrigan

2022 has been a dumpster fire so far 🙂

I hate social media.
I think it’s the trauma.
I’ve seen funnier videos exploiting my trauma.
People really think the only thing that’s ever
broken my soul was a slip on television,
as if I couldn’t write an entire book
on the situations I’ve barely survived from.

Every time I feel like I’m starting to
climb out of this hole I’ve been in,
the universe stomps on my fingers
and I fall back down to the bottom.

Kinda ready to leave
my tear-soaked lashes
all over the place.

My point is, it isn’t harmless.
And it isn’t funny.

Nothing like realizing all
your memories are melting away.  
I only have like twelve left.

Secure those therapists immediately.

Until I’m comfortable sharing the magnitude
of what I’ve been through,
kindly STFU.

I have so much I could say,
but I’m a keep it cute.
That’s why whenever I have some time
to sit on my phone, I reply to
as many positive messages and DM’s
that I have the mental capacity to.

We better hang out in denim booty shorts
with our thongs hanging out
when I come to Chicago next.
Can’t wait to change my hand soaps to
pumpkin flavor and cry to Adele
for the next three months.

Don’t forget to take your
Avril Lavigne pills today.
My mom still won’t listen to me,
but maybe she’ll see this tweet and consider it.

Source: @farrahrized

Alex Carrigan (he/him; @carriganak) is an editor, poet, and critic from Virginia. He is the author of “May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry” (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has had fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in Quail Bell Magazine, Lambda Literary Review, Empty Mirror, Gertrude Press, Quarterly West, Roi Fainéant, ‘Stories About Penises’ (Guts Publishing, 2019), ‘Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear’ (Et Alia Press, 2020), and more. He is also the co-editor of ‘Please Welcome to the Stage…: A Drag Literary Anthology’ with House of Lobsters Literary. For more, visit https://carriganak.wordpress.com/.