Teenie Toffees (ROUND 3)
scent of the day: Nose Rest Day
*Let’s workshop this poem about a BIPOC girl scout--Latina, perhaps mulatto (although it is never revealed)--who awakens to her entrepreneurial talents not too long after reaching double digits.
Teenie Toffees
The Girl Scout, head made for junior-high hustles bolder than badges, found humming
in her front cam that supreme cookie— a glossy box that scaled harder than scripture,
more generative than loaves or fish in the hands of Jesus— fuzzed between her thighs.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
