Someone is selling the blood of my ancestors as a party drug. Someone remains prostrate, and it's us. Kids have always been kids. Ten years is as much as forever, becomes lesser the closer you get to light speed. Pedal your bike faster and I swear we'll get there right after core's collapse, just in time to watch. There will be no words anymore, but language is overrated. Limited and ambiguous for beings with teeth we'll never use again. Impatience is virtuosity without timing. History for those pathetic beings that see time as a straight line.
Carson Pytell and Zebulon Huset collaborate on a poetry project called “Stanza Trades” in which the collaborating poets write alternating stanzas. Carson Pytell is a writer living outside Albany, New York, whose work appears in venues such as Adirondack Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, North Dakota Quarterly, Fourth River, and The Heartland Review. He is Assistant Poetry Editor of Coastal Shelf, and his most recent chapbooks are A Little Smaller Than the Final Quark (Bullshit Lit, 2022), Hate, Love, Hate (Back Room Poetry, 2022), and Willoughby, New York (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Meridian, Rattle, The Southern Review, Fence, Texas Review and Atlanta Review among others. He also publishes the writing prompt blog Notebooking Daily, and edits the literary journal Coastal Shelf.
