Category: citizen trans* {project}


  • IT GETS WORSE

    The US is a joke, a cruel and unfunny joke from a bully. It relies on old timey racist tropes that are more played out than the Apprentice as the becoming president or the Fear Factor guy being treated like a person deserving of our attention. This colonial projects as structurally and longevity of a…

  • I was born with scars on my chest

    When I came out as fresh as a fawn and as juicy as a lamb I want you to know I already had the scars on my chest. I was born like this, with a body that would be preyed upon like so many before me and so many after. I knew from the second…

  • The Fight is Not Joyous

    Fighting fascism does not evoke in me anything resembling joy. Any resistance implies a need for resistance, which implies the existence of oppression, and the only thing in the world which cannot bring about happiness, is oppression. I do not fight, nor do I wish to fight with greater desperation, because of the joyous fruits…

  • September

    and what a beautiful name too.you were there when I was born,with egg shells sprinkled around my eyes.you flew me there, dark but still polished.when do you sleep? when do I wake?i remember it,the burning device on my hand, red eyes and sore arms.we’ve now been able to sleep with our eyes closed.we put our…

  • for pripyat

    he’s keeping his arms out, yardsticks to the sarcophagushazardly contains its lethal blast radius,dripping astringent violet nucleotidesfrom a sting incommensurate with his ability to live. his behavior is repulsive:under the elephant’s foot on his floating ribshe’s chained the little boy who foolishly needs his mother—the boy imagines (or could it be) mommy peers into his…

  • Endangered Species

    If I had claws I would use them to carve woundslike red open mouths on my chestWhere my talon sliced two graceful arcsAnd I pulled away what I do not want. This is cliche.My professor told me so when I tried to write this poem years ago.Every tranny fag wants to rip themselves apart. I…

  • then i would see to unraveling my name

    i vomit up butterflies every time i hear the wordsthey flutter gently on my tongueand then dry between my teethand crumple into a gravei spit out the wingsbut the crawling sensation lingers and yetthey remain unseen.sheshesheshesheshe shakes in the spotlightsand they singe into her skinsheshesheshe wraps her breasts tight within a chrysalisand she ties back…

  • A shooting in utah

    Three children shot at school in Denver around noon. Before we elect to care, Charlie’s bleeding out his neck, dead. News comes in: 200 yards, a hunting rifle, an outdoor event. Tune in to folks I don’t trust, but tolerate, saying “Violence has no place in our Democracy.” They mean the political kind, not the…

  • A Prayer For a Better Purpose

    Lord, Please don’t stand off to the sideWhile someone aims for my head and firesBefore I remember that I have legs. Do not turn meInto another lump of coalTo fuel the war machines of either faction. Do not reduce me to the sparkIn a soldier’s eye as they gut the enemyWith a blade as sharp…

  • i met god and he was a fascist

    after i met Godi remembered a warningi left the wrong throat behind God created an erasure poemhis absence was noted as a deprivationthere weremaggots in the communion wafersnow i recognize it as leftover cartilage each prayera barrel lodged in my windpipe with such smugness they saythe bible corners you knife to throati might burst into…