To the Kid Whacking Metal Pipes Against the Side of My Apartment Building at Six in the Goddamned Morning

Wyatt Mischler

if I were

sultan

of a small country

anyone

who went

anywhere

or did literally

anything

would be arrested,

beaten,

tried,

found

unforgivably guilty,

and executed.

Wyatt Mischler is a 24-year-old Portlander. He writes on the days when he isn't working the front desk at a gay bathhouse.