The Grunge Years

Justin W Price's poem, "The Grunge Years" is in Short Circuit #05, Short Edition's quarterly review. Justin released a poetry collection with Sweatshoppe Publications in 2013 & he was nominated for the Gover Prize in 2014. He lives in Juneau, Alaska with two dogs and is working on a short story collection.

I tucked my hair, long and blond like Kurt's, behind my ears. Red flannel hung low, loose and sloppy, like my guitar. My jeans, all beat to shit, inked with black Sharpie "fuck you's," frayed and stomped by Chuck Taylor. I'd pluck my novice power chords and scream pretty, toneless songs of teenage angst into microphones inside grange halls.And then Kurt died.Alone and prone, below a shot gun, defiant fist clenched next to jeans, all beat to shit, all frayed and stomped. I saw him: a martyr, a hero, a role model pathetic god. But really, he was a scared little boy cowering behind long blond ha

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