Winning Campaign, a poem by Karthik Purushothaman
I wear 140 characters
as pinstripes and say
what I think
without thinking.
My superpower is fitting
both feet in my mouth
and projectile vomiting
the stuff between my toes.
I save the reporters
from jumping off buildings,
leaping across canyon
-deep cracks and swimming
upstream to the source
where the current is strongest
and I am the current
world record holder
for the tallest bungee-jump
into a smoldering hot
Geisha, doing three and a half
twirls on the way down
3D-printing
Escher knots
with my throw-up,
bringing samurai swords
to gunfights, and writing
the book of moonlight
so vote for me.
Karthik Purushothaman hails from Chennai, India, is currently an MFA candidate at William Paterson University of New Jersey, and reads submissions to Map Literary. His work has recently appeared or will soon appear in Subtropics, Rattle, The Common and elsewhere.