“a body enters & I follow” “a body is an error / a body is a performance / is a catastrophe to which i error often” “There is a queerness to my survival—” “what audacity did i have to be born black and alive and stay that way?” “it’s unsettling, to say the least, to be bombarded by the weight of desire while wading in the depths of my grief.” “her leave / ur lips anointed w/ grease / some 🍗 + 🧇 type sexy ur 👅 has no room for” “MY debt makes it too expensive to even fuck now. pussy sat up in collections.” “i was not made / for the eye / to capture / nor the tongue to / comprehend / for the roof of the / mouth assigned / mouth at birth” “may you still experiment with living an erotic and somatically-sound life; it is your only one, wild and precious.” “how fertile, my ugly” “i have a childhood desire to be seen—fully seen—and be wanted.” “you can take the girl / out of the body but first, / you must take the body.” “i open my mouth / & there are no poems anymore i have nothing” “my femme refuses to be shamed.” “i have no desire to become a person to a stranger.”
