Katy Perry We Love You Get Down

2nd Prize | Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize

Katy Perry We Love You Get Down

it’s just four days until my thirty-third birthday and I   don't  know  how  many  more  apps with  straight     men   jumping  into  various bodies of   water   I   can   take   the   targeted ads for at-home fertility kits seem to have slowed   which  is  strange    like   they   know something I don’t last  night there was this  poet who  wouldn't   disclose  her    age   to   me but   the    point     comes     only    once we’re deep in the ground right?! by next year they   will   be    launching  at   least   two spacecraft a week apparently I’m   not sure how many more   photos       of    men
on their   holidays.   to  Spain   I can     take when   we   met     he    said     that   if   he were  a  celebrity he  would   like  to   be   sent to    the     deep    sea   instead  I  was   like isn’t  that  just  what  we’re trying to  escape? and what would  you  like  your   legacy   to   be?it’s April fourteenth.  you  are  kissing   the   dirt like   you   are at   my     grave       and      I am   a    dead  poet   the     people   are    angry
I    don't     know   if    it’s    the  thing   you  said  about  feeling   ‘super     connected    to    love’
or the  thing you said  about  putting   the  ‘ass’ in   ‘astronaut’   and   anyway   ai  is  drinking all  the   water   especially   when   we   give  it our   please    and    thank     yous         oh Katy Perry we love you get down