they say one percent of a billionaire’s wealth could end extreme poverty

by Kiran Josen

instead,
let’s build a cock

rocket, watch it breach

the sky
watch men try to fuck

god

let’s drill

mother’s womb

until she coughs

black blood

let’s fund wars
from boardrooms,
make hunger
a rigged game

somewhere

a mouth gapes

somewhere

a girl plucks

her ribs
like prayer beads.

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BIO: Kiran is a writer and poet drawn to rage, identity, and all things tender and messy. Her work has appeared in Oh Reader, Poetic Reveries, Effemera Magazine, Page Galley Journal, and Opol Space Literary Magazine. She has also been published in anthologies by Cozy Ink Press, The London Writer’s Salon, Gather Poets Anthology 2025, Arcana Poetry Press, and If There’s Anything I Can Do: An Anthology on Grief.