Three Poems by Ian Lee

Richmond Is A City Richmond is a city With bikes And coffee There are old buildings And sidewalks that are imperfect You can get nice cake And hang out on the river The city has a lot of people Mostly students And hipsters A lot of stoners as well And yeah The place is a city

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Life Is A Vape Life is a vape Take a nice hit Enjoy the buzz And you can taste the delicious flavors While wearing a trucker hat and Vintage jeans And you can sip that Espresso tonic Which costs nine bucks And you can read (Kind of) Maybe something from one of the Brontes Or Rowling But only the first few pages And you can hop inside the old Ranger you purchased Off of Facebook Marketplace That barely runs Unlike you Who has gotten into running marathons this past spring Which is around the same time you got into hardcore music Which is well after when you started collecting vinyl Which was like over one year ago When brat dropped Which shows you can be fun to party with At times Like that time you were At a dive bar themed dive bar And there You sipped on a Miller High Life And there you did a couple of lines Or maybe more than a couple Of whatever that one nose drug is It might have been white? But there You breathed in that Sweet Sweet air Filled with smoke From American Spirits Perhaps the yellow or maybe turquoise? But you don't like cigarettes Kind of like how You don't like any of the things you say you do Because life is a vape

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Comedy Is Illegal Since when did they make comedy illegal? This world has become twisted Deranged and lost With the legislation Being written by “The Awoken” But to make a joke Is that of the sleeping man For comedy is for the tired And it leaves a bad taste In the mouths of the bourgeoisie Despite it keeping the proletariat fed The Orwellian cognitive dissonance continues To obscure the truth Comedy

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Ian Lee is a cashier at a coffee shop in Richmond, Virginia. They have no literary aspirations or career goals. Alongside being a co-editor for Future Imperfect Journal, Ian likes to ride bicycles, play EAFC, and eat unhealthy food.

Location: Richmond, VA, USA

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