Mai Serhan
;beirut[1].
glassless tonight/a city
with more legroom, we curl.
Heads at half-mast pity
the bins, the bombs, the girl.
With-more-legroom-we-curl,
talk politics, film, bins-
Bombs BOOM the g-i-r-l-
a sea ghost on a limb.
Talk politics, film, bins,
Things we can't forget:
a sea ghost on a limb
before a red Corvette[2]
Things we can't forget,
heads at half-mast, pity:
Before, a red Corvette.
Glass, less tonight a city.
[1]A semicolon should be followed by a capital letter only if the word is a proper noun or an acronym.
[2]2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe w/1LT
Price $71, 105
Custom duty $49,773.50
Excise duty $35,552
Total $853,962.605.
Mai Serhan is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in Anomaly, Oyster River Pages, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Writers & Readers, Rusted Radishes and is forthcoming in Swamp and Oxford Magazine. She is a Winter Tangerine and Vermont Studio Center alumna, a winner of the Lunch Ticket Twitter Poetry Contest, and a recipient of the Emerging Writer Award from Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, California. Mai is currently pursuing her graduate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.