Abecedarian: Ingredient List and Complete Procedure for the Production of Success

Gorgeous people

High-fructose corn syrup

Icy expanses, not yet melted

Justice (pre-packaged is acceptable)

Krunch™

Lemon juice concentrate

MLK quotes

Nuclear families

Orange food coloring

Prop guns

Quantum—just the word

Rage in its bottle

Samuel L. Jackson

Trans fats

Upper-crust joy

Vultures, always circling

Warm, welcoming voices

Xanthan gum

Yearning for a better life

Zebras in their cages

Add water and stir,

boil, sterilize with

chlorine, send samples to

dictators and await their

edits, bottle and sell to the

frantic masses.

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ISAAC FOX plays the clarinet and guitar, makes weird little books, and spends as much time as possible outside. His work has previously appeared in Bending Genres, Tiny Molecules, and A Velvet Giant, among other publications. Isaac is a co-editor of Shelf Fungus Press, alongside Abbie Hoffer. You can find him on Twitter at @isaac_k_fox.