about being an addict. I keep trying but the moon
won’t show, and holy colors refuse their help. It is
all puke and blah, sad mom sad me and blah, blah
In ninth grade it’s discovered that I can do a good
impression of Fat Bastard from Austin Powers 2
37 ways to clean cum from a suede shirt— what we’ll call instead
How To Polish Your Masterpiece.
Instead of going to the gastroenterologist
when cramps roil or indigestion thunders,
What is not soft here:
a boy spilling out with glitter and gun oil
moon child moves like his mother’s tides
a body that is all awkward and legs
and give a good blow job but can’t
open a bottle of wine without breaking
the cork. I’m almost 30 and
I Crack an Egg
and out glops my mother, dressed in runny
yellow, telling me when to palate cleanse
Arab from the tongue, if I salt too little,
Confession: I don’t like other stutterers.
I don’t like to be reminded
of the wasp between my lips.
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hunger in my mouth
sits like the ghost
of a milk tooth.
1955: Activist Lamar Smith was murdered and remained unsolved after 30 white witnesses
did not come forward; no conviction. This was the same year Emmett Till and George W. Lee were killed.
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before we get started we would like to acknowledge that we live on some unceded bones. sometimes me & mine imagine ancestral homes.
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I should explain: cosmic rays
might be responsible
for the 2009 Toyota recall.