in a jar with some grass
Lion’s Club Awards
Little League All-Star Teams
Honorable Mentions
that time
you graduated
best in DARE
the other time
you wrote
Bill Clinton
Bachelor’s Degree
Master’s Degree
High School Diploma
that marathon record
you still hold
your first published book
live with your parents
ADVANTAGE!
drive a fuel-efficient car
ADVANTAGE!
read some books on Gender
travel to the Smokey Mountains
& get upset when no one cares
larvae morph into things
we romanticize
can a person do the same?
can they do it more than once?
Gas in the Tank
Food on the Table
Bills Paid
these become
the warning signs
getting there was half the cost
Bio
Chad W. Lutz is a speedy, bipolar, non-binary writer born in Akron, Ohio, in 1986, and raised in the neighboring suburb of Stow. They graduated from Kent State University with their BA in English in 2008 and from Mills College in Oakland, California, with their MFA in Creative Writing in 2018. Their first book, For the Time Being, is currently available through J. New Books.