Guarantor

By Dabin Jeong

Of all,
Baja blast

and quick fix sour cream cheese & chip late night ground beef mom’s
you eat dog bowl food chopped fork blue green blue green blue green
stomp stomp press X press X for joy X for joy & blast south south
more south more west more coast more south ring ring for whom the
belle tolls? mom says you eat in a dog bowl on the floor cross legs X-ed
it’s the sauce, man bob & blues — chop suey why so blue (or green)?
tongue in tongue out sky blue with teal rims snap for joy twist X X X
pop that tin hon you laugh a blue laugh with the sauce snip sip hair
twist you say you’ll have a blast short pants sky light drive down town
creek mix up some tunes mom blasts you eat like a dog more south
more south get sick more sick go south get well chomp down some
folds & grow down X get far get south get far you laugh a blue green
laugh say I want to get far X say I want to get south X say I got hit by
your blast X say I got hit

Dabin Jeong (they/them) is a poet and translator from Seoul, South Korea. Their works appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, The Journal, The Rumpus, The Offing, Quarterly West, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Chogwa zine. You can find them on Twitter @dabinjeong___ or on Instagram @verymanybins