I Wanna Be Jenna Marbles
(a partially found poem from the YouTube videos of JennaMarbles)
by Crystal Condakes
I wanna be tall
I wanna be red
hair and velvet
cupcakes the gluten-
free kind so Julien
can eat them
I wanna be a dream
come true
I wanna be a song
off key thick
eye-liner wings all
the colors hair could
imagine being
Peach-y the tired
sigh in Kermit’s
chest released
crushed-up vitamin C
I wanna be a big-ass
pool a chair made of jeans
every sharp staple
I wanna be a yellow
fuzzy coat and stand-up
hair rubber gloves
I wanna be taller than I am
I wanna be more than
wax a chemical patent
I want to be remembered.
About the Author
Crystal Condakes is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. She lives in Massachusetts and works at her public library. Her poems have appeared in Oddball Magazine; Mom Egg Review; Soundings East; The Compassion Anthology; Tupelo Quarterly.