NICO PECK

MAYBE THIS IS ALSO A FANTASY

SO THAT WHEN I DIE

YOU HAVE TO PRETEND I PERFORMED MIRACLES

AND WRITE AN APPLICATION TO THE CHURCH

DO ALL THE PAPERWORK SO THAT I CAN BE

CANONIZED AND I WANT TO BE THE PATRON

SAINT OF POWER CLASHING PLS DO THIS FOR ME

IF I DIE THIS IS ONE OF MY FINAL WISHES BEFORE

I GO UNDER THE KNIFE AND WHEN I COME TO

YOU ARE GOING TO BRING ME A LOCALLY-SOURCED

POPCICLE A FENNEL POPCICLE SOURCED FROM W/IN

FORTY FEET OF WHERE I LIVE MADE WITH FOG WATER

GATHERED FROM A QUILT LEFT OUT OVERNIGHT

AND LATER YEARS FROM NOW WHEN WE PERFORM

THIS TIME AS A PLAY IN OUR OLD OFFICE FOR OUR

COLLEAGUES WE HAVE TO WHISPERSCREAM THIS

AND CREATE SPITTLE BC WE WILL BE LIVING IN POST

COVID ANXIETY AND SPITTLE WILL NEED TO BE RECLAIMED

Nico Peck’s writing can be found in the anthology Troubling the Line, their book The Pyrrhiad (Dirty Swan), and the journals Boog Portable Reader, Open House, and Eleven Eleven among others. Their visual art has shown at Southern Exposure, the Brooklyn Museum, Krowswork Gallery, and in the Frameline Film Festival. They live in San Francisco.