Visceral, A Freeverse Poem
Never
say
never,
your
tomorrow
will wake you with
gray hair on your scalp
and dreads in your thirties
you’ll hear your mother and
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father more viscerally
through you whenever you speak
you looked in the mirror,
opened your ears
every idioaphorism felt
not-unlike you
but what are you:
a composite of thoughts,
memories, DNA, (un)living
afterlives of pandemonium
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Patrick Jonathan Derilus is a Nyack-born, American-Haitian nonbinary multidisciplinary artist, writer, music producer, rapper, graphic designer, and freelance educator. His gender pronouns are he, him, his, and they, them, theirs and currently resides in Hudson Valley, New York. A self-professed autodidact, Derilus quickly adapts to convention for the purpose of becoming unruly, which is revealed in his expressive, streams-of-consciousness styled prose. Working primarily in the subgenre of creative nonfiction through the framework of Afro-pessimism, they write poetry, short stories, and essays that are voiced by way of the anecdotal incorporating elements of autotheory. They are published in the Stonesthrow Review annual literary journal (2016, 2017, and 2018 Issue) at SUNY New Paltz, The Library of Unconventional Lives, RaceBaitR, Hood Communist, Rabble Literature Magazine, and elsewhere. Derilus is the author of Perennial: a collection of letters.
