YOU WERE BORN TO OUTRUN A STEEL BOX GOING 100KM/H by Esme Sedket

green is green and red is green and voltaire once said if there was no colour it would be necessary to invent green and god made the grass greener on the other side so we would know to cross the road. the government made the road barriers green to say not everything that is green is yours. the trees are green then brown and then cut down to build a bus stop a bus stop is shelter is green is green is not green forever and life does not slow down so why should i when i cross the road? there is a difference between enjoying the journey and enduring conformity and if the shortest distance between two points is a straight line then why bother getting it twisted at all? tomorrow all the cars will start driving on astroturf but if i take my shoes off i can separate the feeling of green from the feeling of nothing there is nothing better than knowing you are better than a lamborghini pesto sauce in tortellini i am green i am green i am green

Esme Sedket has been writing for almost a decade and has participated in several editions of SingPoWriMo since 2018 to wildly varying degrees of success.

She is a transgender poet, spoken word performer, musician, artist, tarot reader, game designer, bartender, waiter, chainsmoker, jaywalker, heartbreaker, shit-stirrer, niche internet microcelebrity on Twitter, mother to an orange cat, chaotic force of nature with a bifurcated tongue, and above all else, an imposter. 

She is also trying to go vegan.

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