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swipe (UEA Young Writer Award, 2nd prize)

Charlotte Lee

ATTENTION

Best pizza places in New York!

Rubirosa! L’Industrie! Don Antonio!

$16 a slice!

ATTENTION

How to take the best candid photos

Always be posing

That way it’s still candid

ATTENTION

$800 Shein haul!

Ignore the child laborers, I’m giving them a job

ATTENTION

4.0, 1600,

Rejected, rejected, rejected

ATTENTION

Anti-wrinkle straw morning shed buccal fat removal microneedling chlorophyll water ozempic

 

…

 

the lazy evening sun hangs low in the air

insisting on washing everything with shades of amber and gold

it’s my turn to place a card

a card with folded corners and a crease down the middle, it’s probably older than me

“swipe” i say, and my family groans and laughs

same cadence, same tone, same pace

we reshuffle the cards, surely forming new creases

my dog spins one, two, three times before lying down

and in this moment,

i choose to notice

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