Photograph by guest arts editor, Peter Ahn.
You can read about the art selection process for this piece here.
Blue Angel of Unctuous Balm
It’s true that I got my first period at the Freud museum
It’s terrifying to remember snippets of my young girlhood
I bled before I bled wow
Men like Sartre say things like
Existence precedes essence
But like
What if you want one and not the other
I mean
I’m not religious
I mean
It’s not like I don’t know
what to do
If it gets really bad I’ll just take more
little blue pills
Blue like the night and embroidered velvet
Blue like velvet and the early morning
Wow I’m high /
Etc etc /
Whatever don’t @ me
* * *
Untitled 11/11/17
in a dusty city
all of my female and
female identifying ancestors
gulp down dirty martinis
i fear 2 things: death and
my nuvaring
i wouldnt really know how to
rear a babe
his tiny lips faltering
little motherfucker
doesnt know how to drink down
the nouveau-nouveau-riche
at last year’s Kentucky Derby
i mixed all my desires into a
mint julep
now my son rides Horses
now my son wins Big Money
* * *
3 Hail Marys I’m Gay
there is no such thing as a
perfect hole.
for a long time i could
only get off to gay
porn but
i have a lot of penance
to do before i am
Queer
when i was a teen
i loved that Gregg Araki flick
about aliens and
this little gay boy and
The Sheriff
i
especially liked the
statutory rape scene
with the
Lucky Charms spilled all
over the floor it
‘s a smart shot.
i
am drooling i
am leaking
from every
orifice
Blood
spit and
some female
ejaculate
i
dreamt
about you
in the
hot tub
at the
party
and let
me just
say
O man
O god
O mary
The “O” that Dana ward
Writes about ,
the Bionian O
Oh
i renounce
the arrogance
of solid
ground at
the end of
the day our
recalcitrance is
stupid look /
What / You’ve /
Done
* * *
fuck everyone who is not a stuffed animal
yes she is very cool yes she feels as soft as a baby lamb…
man everyone i’ve dated has been such a stupid disappointment…
we’re all gonna die so you can stick your greasy finger into as many dumb pies as you want…