Carmen E. Brady is usually moving. Her full-length of poetry and drawings, Someday I'm Going to be So So Happy, was recently released by 2Fast2House. Follow her on twitter @therealcbrad.
3 poems by Carmen E. Brady
April 14, 2017
I can’t wait to be your tragic bitch
May 9, 2017
Kick me in the face with my own kitschiness
And forgive me for falling prey to all these millennial wants
I’m trying to figure out if it matters
That I didn’t fully realize women could masturbate until I was 21
So fuck me while I’m still fleetingly young
I am still building the full mythology of me
May 30, 2017
The entire universe is literally just really slowly self-destructing
But when I do it I’m clinically depressed
Ya, ok
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As a baby I was blond
And now I’m dead inside
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I don’t believe in god but I do believe in the universe
Which might be worse
In my head I wrote you 10000 words but instead I went grocery shopping
and cried when I saw spray on sunscreen
The thing that allows us to live is killing us
and if we’re being honest
I’ll probably let all this fruit rot in the fridge
After 25 years I’m ready to stop living in what-ifs
If I could just figure out how