Teenage Diplomats
we slouch the hood of your shitty Sentra to get closer to the stars
listening to Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on WZOZ
Jason says he’s fishing but he’s just using carp as target practice
still bitching about how I slept with his sister at New Paltz
seduced her when I asked for a pen in Intro to Philosophy
I tell him it was the easiest way I could fuck him
and then you turn to me and say
I want to fuck Jason too, so we
spend the night blinded in the moonlight
shooting fish in a barrel
©2023 Damon Hubbs All rights reserved.
Damon Hubbs is the author of three chapbooks: Coin Doors & Empires (Alien Buddha Press), The Day Sharks Walk on Land (Alien Buddha Press), and Fly Creek (forthcoming from Naked Cat Publishing). His poems have been featured in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Roi Fainéant Press, Otoliths, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, Does It Have Pockets, and elsewhere. He lives in New England.
Twitter: @damon_hubbs