Kristin Garth is a Pushcart, Rhysling nominated stalker. She is a Best of the Net 2020 finalist. Her sonnets have stalked journals like Glass, Yes, Five:2:One, Luna Luna and more. She is the author of 20 books of poetry including Candy Cigarette Womanchild Noir (Hedgehog Poetry Press), Flutter Southern Gothic Fever Dream (TwistiT Press), and Girlarium (Fahmidan Journal). She is the founder of Pink Plastic House a tiny journal and co-founder of Performance Anxiety, an online poetry reading series. Follow her on Twitter: (@lolaandjolie) and her website kristingarth.com
Choose Your Own Transgression
after Servant
Choose your own transgression— kidnapping with drugs,
the crimes you commit conflating with love.
Discount earth quaking, bustle of bugs,
electrostatic discharges above,
around each time you speak in platitudes
inside a brownstone of ineptitude. Cast
fallen angels in attics to brood.
God did this once. Look what ensued. The past
no professor, even your own. The split
in your psyche is universally known
but kept from you, secret, illness permitted
reign, mad monarch mortals lead to a throne.
Choose your transgression like a childhood book —
consequences writ by author you forsook.
Punk Noir Magazine 
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