Jason B. Crawford: Ode to the Take
Photo: Joanna C. Valente
Ode to the Take
The night, the club, the whiskey, the well, the
jam, the jack, the jit, the juke, the Jim, the
James, the Jackson, the Drew, the alcohol,
the gin, the vodka, the tequila, the
whiskey, the whiskey, the floor, the cold, the
bathroom, the tile, the vomit, the mop, the
throat, the stuffed, the hands, the boy, the smile, the
cut, the grin, the you, the want, the this, the
take, the take, the take, the take, the take, the
take, the take, the bottle, the drunk, the dance,
the depression, the whiskey, the juke, the
boy, the smile, the flag, the bottle, the take,
the hand, the fall, the fag, the fake, the faint,
the boy, the boy, the take, the boy, the boy.
Jason B. Crawford [He/They] is a black, non-binary male, bi-poly-queer writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. In addition to being published in online literary magazines, such as Wellington Street Review, Barren Magazine, The Amistad, and Kissing Dynamite, he is also the Editor in Charge for The Knight’s Library Magazine. His chapbook collection Summertime Fine as a Short List selection for Nightingale & Gale.
