Teenagers (for A.)

by A. Kahn

Image credit: Andre Hunter on Unsplash

Invincible on midnight streets

beading blood on our

freshly-tattooed skin

We load up on

root beer and peach rings

bleach and developer

watch Showgirls and Poltergeist,

VH1 reality TV while you foil

my hair, hookah while we ruin

our Sims’ lives.

Browsing through record stores,

making out at Ataris shows

I never thought men

would tell us who we are.

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A. Kahn

A. Kahn (she/her) is a Midwestern writer and artist who loves reading, watching movies, and doing jigsaw puzzles. Her prose has been published in Of Rust and Glass, poetry in ONE ART and San Pedro River Review, and artwork in the horror anthology Café Macabre II.