first published in the Scumrag by Scumbag Press in the UK This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Rhea Melina’s Found Confetti (Carbonation Press, 2024) “I beg of you to not get me wrong, But you will” I met Rhea Melina on Telegraph in Oakland, at a craft beer and bottle shop where we …
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May 12
2 poems by Rhea Melina
The days are packed not like sardines. Like pennies rolled tight. Ends folded precise, insides adding up to what? I wish for you a more simple life. For the necessity of washing fruit to be all you need to radicalize you. I’ve straddled the threshold my whole life and I suppose I’m lucky to never …
May 01
You out here by Rhea Melina
You out here Yeah, you out here making fun of millionaires in space but have you canceled your Prime membership? If not, it’s you paying for it, all of it with your money and your time and your energy and your eyes and you will go nearly blind but won’t be able to pay for …


