to the nurse almost reading this epitaph, after almost calling the cops

Lucas Scheelk

to the nurse almost reading this epitaph, after almost calling the cops

My obituary carries your receipt

about the poet

Lucas Scheelk (they/them) is an autistic queer white Jew. They were diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in 2020. They’re a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, and a degree-less college-dropout. If you’re a Halachic Daydream, a collector of Special Interest Badges, love literary mashups, or in search of prayers inside pomegranate seeds, Scheelk’s work may be for you! Their 3rd poetry book A PRAYER FOR A NON-RELIGIOUS AUTISTIC is available at Mason Jar Press! Elsewhere, you can find their work in Taco Bell Quarterly, Autonomous Press, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Pandemic Publications, Rejection Letters, scissors & spackle, queerlings, Mollyhouse, Stone of Madness Press, and the Bare (one’s) Breast Postcard Project, among others.