rhetorical question about dead things
after David Harsent

the living have living smiles. they drink real tea from the veins of canopies. also living.
the living have living veins. from the inside the living components of the living
exist in a darkness. the living rarely hear the sounds of their own exiled gears.

Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cottagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their B.A. in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook everyone's left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impossible Archetype and Emerald City, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan.