Jill Khoury

RADIO AD

Know this:
the blind
are listening
to your station.
The blind
rock out
to your
trance
downbeat
darkwave
slo-core
shoegazer
goth-punk.
The blind
have slunk
their way into
your demographic.
The blind
consume
your merchandise,
later thinking damn
how did you
up-sell me? I bet you didn't
know these advertising
dollars were being spent
to help the blind
help themselves.
Your ad advises me
to prevent blindness
by getting a vision
screening annually.
I would gladly
donate my car
sir/madam,
in return for a free
hotel voucher,
but there is
a slight
complication.

Jill Khoury earned her Masters of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including Sentence, 13 Myna Birds, Menacing Hedge, and Harpur Palate. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice by Breath and Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature and has a chapbook, Borrowed Bodies from Pudding House Press.