GINKGO MAGAZINE

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Falling Into Sunspots

by: Jake Price

I wanna fry

I wanna fry

Shoot down the sun

I wanna try

–

Blow torching holes into the ozone layer

so everyone can get a better tan,

and raising the temperature of the oceans

 so we can skinny dip year-round.

We are the Earth’s melanoma.

At least if the world is burning alive 

and ending in our lifetime then

I might live long enough to name these 

landfills once they turn into continents. 

–

I wanna fry

I wanna fry

I’ll swim in the sun

if I’m gonna die

Jake Price is a junior Creative Writing major at Susquehanna University. He spends most of his time reading his poetry to his cat, Raven, who has yet to give him any feedback. His poetry has been published in Philadelphia Stories, The Poet, and Cream Scene Carnival.