Do Not Resuscitate
White Noise
A
woman’s voice
cooing
The end of times
are here to stay
Transnational Justice
is the
oppressors
way of
Omitting
Fault
ON The friday
Night a
Plant screams
for
nine
hours
A phone
rings
At the
wrong moment
I awake in
a sheet of ice
craving
foreign soil
in my plate
blue
Fish from Lake Michigan
swim
We packed
Shawarma
for the trip up North
Watched marathons of monster movies
for comedy & not tragedy
The minutemen stand
Firm on horizon
made
of faulty steel & corduroy sky
I offer them
nothing they plunder
the big dipper
The
Hajjis on the porch front send a carrier
pigeon
They saw me floating
into strange cars by
the corner store
But never
stopped picking
Grape leaves
from
my fence
Yasmine Rukia is a Lebanese-American experimental poet, professional social justice bore and the reigning meme queen of Metro Detroit. Her hot takes exploring the nexus of arabesque america, womxnhood, taboo, islam and pop culture blurring the lines between fiction and futurism can be found on PaperMag, TheRedFez, Cliterature, Jaffat El-Aqlam, and others, including her IG theflowerofcarnage