Kathleen Veltkamp
Kathleen "Kat" Veltkamp is a young author hailing from Wyoming. She is a casual writer, but hopes to pursue the craft in a more professional manner. She has four self-published projects that can be found on Amazon and Amazon Kindle. You can find her on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/katullus.bsky.social
the writhe
a handful of hot worms, slipping up the salt
the garden of snakes, decorating the bride
all that mutated muscle, bubbling up on the asphalt
clumps of cold prions, singing out their pride
allacallacodecaller
0 these walls cannot hold a soul 0
1 sure they try so hard 1
1 but we know the real 1
1 see those lies licked up 1
0 in a sea of code 0
0 told to believe that 1
1 they’re a real boy 0
1 in lieu of lameness 1
0 the pixelated powers that be 0
1 can definitely imitate the form 1
1 find the unfurled fissures 1
0 and fix them 0
1 but perfection is ugly 1
1 and the horrendous has beauty 1
1 stop shortcutting the thought 0
1 just short the circuit 0