posing
with my red welted
cross and your desire to please
manners behind my bared teeth
and your clear rimmed glasses
our pop synthesizer faces
and pet names don’t we make
such pretty pictures
for our parents and the baptists
in the next waffle house booth?
shrieking genderbent radio
flailing 60mph rear
ending lexington’s
last fuck to give
you can pluck my eyebrows
while i tie black bow above
your white sweetheart
neckline
let’s just get it down on paper
so it can be burnt
at short notice in the just married
suburban minivan
towards harvard law
we can discuss
God ‘s opinion
social constructs growing
up names words
clauses necessities
and we won’t forget to high beam
for the breathing blinking
shutters by the gas pumps
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well yes!
love seeing “the baptists in the next waffle house booth” and “shrieking genderbent radio” just a line apart
vros were biting their fingernails
This poem thrills me for some reason! “Shrieking genderbent” brings two words I’ve seen together. Sometimes I have a hard time reading work that has a lot of spaces or zigzags but I totally dug this!