By Alex Carrigan
I’m so excited for this new
Britney Spears era.
Britney’s voice is finally being heard
loud and clear all over the world.
Some pop stars never incorporate
a kick and/or splits,
but Britney Spears was out there
doing a high kick, with her left leg,
while pregnant with her second baby.
One of the many reasons
she’ll remain my favorite.
Look how beautiful she was pregnant.
I hope Lifetime is finally rethinking
the Britney movie they made.
If Piers Morgan interviews Britney Spears,
hopefully he can start off with
an apology for being part of
the media problem in 2008,
which was also the year she was
put into a conservatorship.
I will always be #TeamBritney.
One day it will be your turn.
Success starts when
quitting is no longer an option.
Success is figuring out
a way to make money while you sleep.
I love my job.
Whenever I’m tired, feel like I can’t perform
or need a day off, I remind myself
that I moved to Vegas when I was 20 years old
to perform six nights a week
in a six month contract.
Performing for a living is exactly
the life I wanted out of high school.
I’m still doing what I love.
Last night I fell asleep smiling
and it felt so good.
Try it.
Source: @DerrickBarry
Alex Carrigan (he/him; @carriganak) is an editor, poet, and critic from Virginia. He is the author of “May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry” (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has had fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in Quail Bell Magazine, Lambda Literary Review, Empty Mirror, Gertrude Press, Quarterly West, Roi Fainéant, ‘Stories About Penises’ (Guts Publishing, 2019), ‘Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear’ (Et Alia Press, 2020), and more. He is also the co-editor of ‘Please Welcome to the Stage…: A Drag Literary Anthology’ with House of Lobsters Literary. For more, visit https://carriganak.wordpress.com/.
