Character Postcard (Sort Of!): Mechagirl (Patreon)

This month, y'all wanted to hear from the titular Mechagirl from The Melancholy of Mechagirl.

Well.

Trouble is.

I started writing the postcard in poem form, since, you know, it was a poem.

And then it kept going. And could never fit on a postcard. And is also now a full-on sequel to MoMG. Do poems have sequels? I don't know, but this one does. Ten whole-ass years after the poem came out originally. (And jesus, thank you, everyone, for caring about a tiny poem from a tiny zine a decade later. That is the dream poets no longer dare to dream.) 

SO THIS MONTH YOU ALL GET A BRAND NEW POEM INSTEAD.

The first new poem I've written in years, actually. 

Right here, published nowhere else, not even getting paid for it by some fancy semiprozine, just purely wrote it out of love and brainpaints and I guess apparently it wanted to exist immediately, no waiting. 

I hope you like it--god DAMN it's been a long time since I wrote a poem! Perhaps it will slightly make up for being so late with content this month due to crushing deadlines.

Perhaps it will just make you smile.

That's all a girl ever wants.

Eeep! Let me know what you think!