back, and my apology wins you back, wins you over, wins the NOBEL PRIZE IN PEACE, the PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, the TONY AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION, the PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE, the GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MALE, CRYING), the ACADEMY AWARD FOR MOST PATHETIC MONOLOGUE, the GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BIGGEST REACH, the OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN BIGGEST LEAP IN LOGIC, the DRAMA DESK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LYRICS, the QUEERTY AWARD FOR MOST EMBARRASSING HOMOSEXUAL, the SMALL DICK ENERGY PRIZE FOR WEAKEST MAN, the PLATITUDE PISSER AWARD FOR MOST PISSED OUT PLATITUDES, the RIPLEY CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE IT AWARD FOR MOST PISS OUT OF A MOUTH, the AMERIHEALTH OF NEW JERSEY AWARD FOR NEEDING MORE THERAPY, the ACCOUNTABILITY PRIZE FOR MOST LIKELY TO SAY THEY WILL CHANGE, AND THEN NOT, the 2025 THANK GOD YOU DIDN’T DO THIS IN REAL LIFE PRIZE, the FACT THAT YOU’RE STILL IN MY CONTACT LIST IS CRIMINAL, the TRUTH IS NO ONE HAS EVER GONE NO CONTACT WITH ME BEFORE; THOUGH I LEARNED HOW TO FUCK OFF I HAVE NOT LEARNED HOW TO FUCK -ING LET GO, the SOUND OF YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD IS STILL SO CLEAR, the QUIVERS IN MY SPEECH ARE STILL SO REAL THAT MY PREFRONTAL CORTEX wins the GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL, wins the BACKSLIDE AWARD FOR EMOTIONAL RELAPSER, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD
Steven C. Wright (he/him) is a queer poet and prose author from Edison, New Jersey. He has a BA in English from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and runs a small poetry workshop group every week. His work has appeared in Frontier Poetry, Serotonin Press, BRAWL, Full House Literary, and elsewhere. He can be found on Bluesky @stevencw.bsky.social and Twitter/Instagram @stevencwright_. His favorite historical feud are the Bone Wars of the late 1800s, wherein two paleontologists of the Northeastern United States ruined their finances and their minds in an effort to discredit and disgrace the other, creating many accurate but also inaccurate reconstructions of fossils in the process: two men making fake dinosaurs because they hated each other so much.
