Diva Rules

~ And Other Poems

            Caspar Bryant

with lines from Michelle Visage’s autobiography, The Diva Rules

  1. Everyone can help you
  2. Here’s how my quiet mind looks
  3. I dreamed of watermelons and halter tops
  4. Hot-oil wrestling rings
  5. I wore my leopard prints to work every day 
  6. You know now that I don’t believe in regret
  7. I dialled dead end after dead end after dead end after
  8. You have more fucking lives in you than anyone i know
  9. The only diamond among cubic zirconia
  10. A guy in flannel is always an enigma
  11. Clowns felt offended
  12. Google Earth makes me freak out!
  13. What? I’m just a tiny speck?
  14. Nothing matters?
  15. Namaste, girl
  16. That’s what wisdom is all about
  17. I never got rich off of Seduction
  18. I can’t personally control what ISIS does
  19. I can’t clean up after Fukushima with Dove soap and latex gloves
  20. Our god-given glitter comes unglued
  21. I called my Kabbalah teacher
  22. I was on a Jewish mysticism kick at the time
  23. I spend that time running my lines
  24. I ended up writhing alone
  25. This. This was my new life
  26. I have further to go, further to go, further to go
  27. We will be invincible
  28. Your horrid soul may just rot
  29. I listen to my body

Caspar Bryant is a poet from West Cornwall. Their work can be found in SPAMzine, Broken Sleep, Deleuzine, and Propel Magazine. He currently lives in Fife & is yet to publish a first collection.