[Now, We Are] Severely Doomed, but Hot is What We Aim For (Introducing My/The Sad, Lonely Alien//Also for My “Alsos” and One “Also As”)

Poetry

Jun 14

Written By Ami J. Sanghvi

Graphic of an outer space alien on a bright pink background

Screenshot of a text dated 12:57 AM that says “Severely Doomed but Hot is What We Aim For is a poem I am writing tomorrow”

last I checked I amsupposed to be writing poemsor else fairytales about this sadlonely alien I invented asa manifestation of myself and [also as] some ethereal philanthropy    specifically extraterrestrialextravagant   myste…

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Ami J. Sanghvi

Ami J. Sanghvi is an Indian-American, queer author, artist, boxer, Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, and recent graduate from the CalArts Creative Writing M.F.A. program with a concentration in Image and Text. Her work has recently appeared in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Inverted Syntax, Humana Obscura, and several other publications and exhibitions. She can be found on Instagram and Twitter as @HotWraithBones

http://www.amijsanghvi.com

[Now, We Are] Severely Doomed, but Hot is What We Aim For (Introducing My/The Sad, Lonely Alien//Also for My “Alsos” and One “Also As”)

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