William Repass
GUZZLIN’
I drink a gallon of water
still parched
I drink a gallon of coffee
still drowsy
quaff a gallon of vodka
still no nonsense
drinks 1 gal hot sauce
insipid nonetheless
drinks 1 gal pink bismuth
genericized trademark
sickening still
drinks gal of shampoo
nonetheless a greaseball
gal antifreeze
aloof as ever
3.78 liters type O negative
a fruit bat nonetheless
ditto for gorilla glue
stuck on sapiens
ditto nitroglycerine
nevertheless stable
ditto jet fuel
going
nowhere
I resign myself to
being
a twelve gallon hat
or is it twelve
one gallon hats
WILLIAM REPASS lives in Pittsburgh. His poetry and fiction appear in Bending Genres, Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, Hotel Amerika, and Word For / Word. His critical writing may be found at Full Stop and Slant Magazine.
ISSUE TWELVE features poetry by Samuel Amadon, Rennie Ament, Bruce Beasley, Brittany Cavallaro, Lidija Dimkovska, Denise Duhamel, Alexandria Hall, Rebecca Hazelton, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Kim Hyesoon, Gilad Jaffe, Michael Klein, Peter LaBerge, Nick Lantz, Eugenia Leigh, Robert Wood Lynn, Lisa Olstein, Eric Pankey, Tomaž Šalamun, Elizabeth Scanlon, Nathan Spoon, Sampson Starkweather, Peter Streckfus, Rodrigo Toscano, Stella Wong, and Felicia Zamora; fiction by Marie-Helene Bertino, Emily Neuberger, and Ed Taylor; nonfiction by Kate Colby, Krystal Languell, Kathryn Nuernberger, and J. M. Tyree; a film essay by Zack Finch; and Prageeta Sharma in conversation with Michael Dumanis.