WELCOME TO MOON BEACH

Farah Abouzeid

a guy eats a live chicken on tv i don’t mean he eats chicken live i mean he eats a living chicken

i’m not saying i want to seduce you but i allow myself to be loved

i allow my hips to be water come into my sandy bed i keep dreaming

of a girl in a green world i think the girl is me

resonance is an act an endless loop of lucidity

watching kajillionaire and eating salmon i love miranda july and i’m about to start sobbing

love is not a problem to be solved you try to get away you dope

in the subtle body the hands are an extension of the heart

so yeah i powered through the fish now my apartment smells like the ocean


MAGIC FOR SALE

Farah Abouzeid

starry eyed sea freak with no plan

no insurance

just a mermaid doll in a plastic box

everything would be so much easier

if i was being sold at target

my skin would be encrusted with glitter

my fingers would be fused together

so that my hands were always cupped

open and outheld

how can i write about anything else

 
 

Farah Abouzeid (she/her) is a writer from Monterey, California. She studied Literature and Writing at UCSD, where her play Social Suicide was produced by the Undergraduate New Play Festival. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and recently completed a mermaid-themed poetry collection titled Dreamphone, inspired by Persephone’s journey into the underworld. Her work has been published in Strip Mall Magazine and Fruitslice. Farah is currently based in Los Angeles, writing, teaching, and reading tarot cards.