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:: variety looks like: lying ::
:: to the uber driver about my ::
:: blood. it’s never about the ::
:: wigs matting under the sink. ::
:: it’s about letting a white boy ::
:: squeeze champagne from ::
:: my arteries. it’s about ::
:: grandmother spending ::
:: her last days with a face ::
:: full of make-up. my belly ::
:: swells with nothing. i am ::
:: fiction—a truth as far-out ::
:: as urban legend. ::
:: did you lose your reflection ::
:: in mine? i’ll leave violet ::
:: bread crumbs across ::
:: the loneliest planet for you. ::
:: i’ve been opened before. ::
:: the fortune, nowhere ::
:: to be found. yet ::
:: being split is a gift. ::
:: my marrow, brass from every ::
:: lie i’ve told. oh, january. ::
:: how light was soft silver ::
:: fur around your coldness, ::
:: a somewhat halo. ::
:: smoke the incense of my husk. ::
:: i know how to shake ass ::
:: on my own rubble every ::
:: morning & marry forehead to ::
:: the back of mother’s hand ::
:: before a voyage. only pray ::
:: to make it home safe when i’m ::
:: feeling myself ::
:: otherwise moonlight as ::
:: a family curse, godhelpyou ::
:: silking every esophagus. ::
:: word on the street is: ::
:: floodlight through ::
:: bullet holes looks like ::
:: autumn somewhere foreign. ::
:: when i speak, where does ::
:: it land? in the space between ::
:: my fingers i hold shelter ::
:: for the finer things—in ::
:: my uterus: a hostage ::
:: appetite to find the one ::
:: strong enough to bury me. ::
:: I grind the rank bull to dust ::
:: for masses to gum, ::
:: clap my glazed thighs ::
:: as a mating cry. ::
:: to have pussy is to be rouged ::
:: with centuries & terror. ::
:: name the undiscovered ::
:: hue on your face like ::
:: a hitchhiking storm. it ::
:: goes like this: spiced ::
:: amber exploding between ::
:: riptides of grey. the night ::
:: writhes in its papery scales, ::
:: choreos blood into ::
:: cursive. everywhere, ::
:: i am leaving. ::
:: you don’t owe me, ::
:: anything, love ::
:: but here you are, ::
:: a lost painting of me. ::
IG: @stiiickyriiice
