Watch the accompanying video here. --- if I die on the dance floor tonight know that I did not go willingly that tomorrow I had dreams of morning breath kisses from a boy I pray is left behind if I die on the dance floor tonight console yourself that it is how we wish for I died doing what I loved surrounded by friends and family peacefully in muted gunfire if I die on the dance floor tonight please don’t stop the music I cannot bare to hear the silence anymore (11/20/2022)
Caleb Ferganchick is a rural, queer, slam poet activist and author of The Secret of Sunflowers (2021) and Poetry Heels (2018). His work has been featured and published by Western Colorado Writer’s Forum (2021), South Broadway Ghost Society (2020, 2021), “Slam Ur Ex ((the podcast))” (2020), and the Colorado Mesa University Literary Review. He organizes the annual Slamming Bricks poetry slam competition in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and serves as a board member for Western Colorado Writer’s Form and Mutual Aid Partners. A SUP river guide and speech and debate coach, Caleb also dreams of establishing a queer commune with a river otter rescue and falconry. He lives in Grand Junction, Colorado. View more posts
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Thanks, Caleb
As usual, clear, direct (I don’t care for flowery stuff), and packed to bursting with feeling.
JL
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This was beautiful. Thank you.
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