by Leah Mueller
We watched cowboy shows during nap time, while our parents drank coffee and smoked cigarettes in another room.
In the movies, all that counted was strength, winning, and
not getting your ass shot in the process.
My only concern was making sure I could trade my Crackerjack popcorn for peanuts.
Leah Mueller is an indie writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of two chapbooks, “Queen of Dorksville” (Crisis Chronicles Press) and “Political Apnea” (Locofo Chaps) and two books, “Allergic to Everything” (Writing Knights Press) and “The Underside of the Snake” (Red Ferret Press). Her work has been published in Blunderbuss, Memoryhouse, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Origins Journal, Your Impossible Voice, Remixt, and many anthologies. She was a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival, and a runner-up in the 2012 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest.