Platitudes may serve you well,
With piety and cheer,
I’m much too bitter for that crap,
Let me greedily besmear.
Be grateful every morning,
With your herbal tea,
I’ll take cake and snipping,
Solitude and revelry.
You sigh with affirmations,
Kids say the darnest things,
I roll my eyes with furor,
And flap my curmudgeonly wings.
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About Avery Cassell
Avery Cassell is a genderqueer San Francisco writer, poet, cartoonist, and artist who grew up in Iran. They live with their Maine Coon cat, Lulu, and bake yeasted waffles every Sunday morning.
Behrouz Gets Lucky is their first novel. You can find their erotic short stories sprinkled in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2015 and Sex Still Spoken Here. Avery is currently working on a book of more of Behrouz and Lucky's shenanigans, a memoir, and an illustrated early reader children's book about a eight year old transgender boy and his family.
