Brand New Pink Fanta Flavor

i put my hand inside 
the vending machine
and pulled out a pink fanta

NEW FLAVOR:
DRAGON FRUIT it said 
on its slinky pink label

a pink mark spit itself
onto the back of my hand
stamping pyrrhic victory

my conquest of poison
i drank it by choice
injured myself to sip its fizz
pinkly

i put my hand inside 
the vending machine
as if petting a loved one
i hurt

a pink mark on the spot
i touched his hand
my touch poison tough
like love callused

or love callous pink
like my cheeks after a few sips 
of something hard

i ripped my hand out
of the vending machine
like it held a heart in its fist
green day cover art
ventricles shooting

hot pink blood in spurts
i unscrewed the heart
and took a tiny sip 

i slid my hand 
in the vending machine
and rooted around
for something but

all that was left was
nothing, so pink

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is an MFA candidate at Rutgers University-Camden, where she has recently written about tattooing, mediums, and trees. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Yalobusha Review, HAD, Bedfellows Magazine, dirt child, Hot Pink Mag, and seasons of des pair quarterly, among others. Her chapbook DUH is forthcoming from Bullshit Lit. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.