Suggestions for Drinking
You are beautiful, Pixie!
She hands me a full cup
of myself.
And I spit it out.
You are a riot!
If we had gills, we could live
in the ocean,
amid the ruins of Atlantis.
Try the bitters.
Try these new lemons.
For far too long
we have been playing
by the rules.
Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. He has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and The Cream City Review.