Gasoline by Courtney LeBlanc

​Gasoline

The man who grabbed / my ass on the train / gasoline / the man could have passed / as Santa / calling
me honey / gasoline / the man who sunk / his fingers / inside of me / before I could push / him away /
gasoline / the man who tried to fuck me / with an empty beer bottle / when I was sixteen / gasoline / the
man / who called / me sweetheart / in a meeting / gasoline / I’m peeling / back my skin / revealing / the
flint of a match / crawling through my blood / my bones / I’m ready / to burn / this fucking frat party / of
America to the ground.


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Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the chapbooks All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and The Violence Within (Flutter Press), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and her poetry is published or forthcoming in Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brain Mill Press, Haunted Waters Press, and others. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos. Follow her on twitter: @wordperv, and IG: @wordperv79. 

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