MAR ❋ Sarah Jean Alexander

Sometimes you tell yourself
stop thinking about that dick
and then it’s all you can think about
for the next three months

but it’s winter so nothing we do matters
Soon, I’ll be wearing the same sweat­stained
cutoff shorts for the 20th day in a row

I’ll realize it’s spring almost summer
There will be frozen margarita in my stomach
McCarren Park grass hiding in my asscrack

When I was younger
my insecurities mostly revolved around
the hair on my arms:
impressive and excessive for a 12-­year-­old girl

A boy called me ‘beast’ for all of 7th grade
so I shaved them for the next 10 years of my life