dodgy

dodge hemi pickup

rumbling and ready to roll

away from here

please say thank you

he told her. she was four times his age

thank you she hummed thank you 

thank you

the coke from the cooler

steady burning her 

hand

#katyamills

99 cents @ the quikstop

i am singular

organic yet 100% reconstituted
of unknown ethnic
origin. uncompromised 

inside a racial

divide

i feel island

composing metaverse
they wanna buy me
for 99 cents @ the quikstop

a generation why
32-bit clerk in
16-thread scrubs
calls me off my platform
in the pink cloud
brigade

radiating my
tertiary-processed
64-bit self-serve themed
limousine queen
ego state

they blister and
sizzzzzle

#katyamills

emo.z

yesterday i got lost
on gen z emo
rap and cried about the lean
the purple the blue
they turned
before their time
came due

thank god
the music lives
on

we gen x

we gen x in the shadow
of the boom

we subjected to vietnam era
rerun documentary
our own stories gunned
down with jfk

they got so worried
during the second war
they waited for victory
to procreate

 

the grandparents
in shell shock reverie
of d.day

we gen x in the shadow
of the boom

we eat astronaut ice
cream and toy with the key
hung off the neck
by a string

mtv lashes out lovely
by light and sound so
we paint the basement walls
all night. under

the influence

bumping our heads
on the deep cut

 

we gen x

in the shadow of the boom

our thumbs blistered
by joysticks inside the impossible
space

hidden in the slant
of the attic and papered
walls

the opening is tbd. byo latchkey

we were...

latchkey kids. made deaf beneath 

the wall of sound

of the industry

of the landscape
in the head

we played arcade games

to recover and chewed bubble 

gum and drew on ourselves

with ballpoint pens 

dumb kids. not stupid just 

contextually thin

lacking or without sense or

the means to make

sense

hungry for relevance
starved of context 

ignorant of our rights 

we no longer studied our 

country's constitution

in high school

we microwaved tv dinners

and rode our bikes into the 

night with duran duran baking

our heads by transistor

radio

stressed kids. the trance-like induction 

of environmental stressors fill

the internal auditorium

teeming life of feelings acid-washed
a sensitive study of self
unreleased

abbreviated from an lp to an ep

the world stops when the record store is closed
the opening is tbd

you are all invited
statistics will be gathered

and fall upon us
with friends

new cokes slim jims leg warmers

byo latchkey

KatYa, 2017

tween age emoticon

tween age emoticon
 by Katya Mills

Ima tween age
emoticon
Wearing hand me up
celeron
On my wristwatch laptop
son

Gotta date to comic
con
With my teenage
chaperone
Eating grandmas
toblerone

ima tween age
emoticon
slush rush
succubus

dreamin x game
junkie

32-bit clerk in 16-thread scrubs

100% reconstituted
i am singular
organic

of unknown ethnic
origin. uncompromised 

inside a racial

divide

i am the anti

metaverse

i feel island

they wanna buy me
for 99 cents at the quikstop

this generation why
32-bit clerk in
16-thread scrubs

calling me out
off my platform
in the pink cloud
brigade

i radiate my
tertiary-processed
64-bit self-serve themed
limousine queen
ego state

they blister
lick and
sizzzzzle

#katyamills