i am not a poet

Paxton Grey (he/they) is a non-binary, neurodivergent software developer living in Virginia. He has a degree in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. They can be found on twitter @PaxWrites.

en route

you know asphalt tastes like death:gritty between your teeth. you loseyourself to the icy street. drunk shoeless, you liethere waiting for an inattentive truckto do what you couldn’t. but it’s 3amin the suburbs and you can’t helpbut think you botched it...