buzz buzz buzz denied by Giovanni Mangiante

I left my wine glass unattended

for a few minutes,

and next thing I notice

is two wine-covered flies

fucking sideways 

next to it.

I could have used that moment

to reflect upon the irony of nature

and the role alcohol plays

amongst us living organisms,

instead,

I swatted the living shit out those two

because if I'm not the one fucking

in this room

then nothing else is either.

Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Newington Blue Press, Rusty Truck, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, and more. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.