Kyle Ferguson
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Kyle Ferguson was born in a small town in Saskatchewan and spent his formative years in Central Alberta, Canada. He is a psychologist working in a tribal clinic in Washington State. He has published numerous works of nonfiction including journal articles, book chapters, and five books. Among a number of others, his poems appear in the magazines, Quills, The Delinquent, Chimera, & Orbis. He has also published a smattering of short fiction.
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I’M GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S COVID-1999
“I’ll dance my life away...”
- 1999, Prince
“It is very mild...”
- Donald J. Trump
i know how
this is going
to end
but i choose
baseless optimism
over reason,
science.
besides wet blanket
why think
of mortality
at a time
like this?
fuck altruism!
i will Don
an orange
fool’s mask & join
in the danse
macabre working
myself up
to a fever
pitch until
my blood boils &
my brain crowds
out my skull
until the dance floor
under us collapses
under the shear
weight o
f
wil
lful
ig
nor
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n
c
e
.
