and it reads: in this house, we believe… trans women are women. all cops are bastards. john hinckley junior did nothing wrong. kurt cobain was trans. all landlords are liars. devine is still the filthiest person alive. in this house, we say faggot and tranny and we graffiti girldicks on cop cars. and yes, astrology…
When they kill me in the coming years,please bury my head in the backyardof that house in Wood Hollow, to restin the shadow of the tire swing, to sinkinto the fire pit pressed upon the forest. I want to watch that everchanging earth.Even as it dries in the coming droughtand floods in the lingering hurricane,I know…
There was a man whose job it wasto log the cost of burning a sodomite to death.So many pesos for the lumber, so many reales for rope,so much for leather gloves and flint.He formed the numbers carefully,judicious with quill on vellum,massaged cramped fingers and shifted his seat,finally walked home. There were hundreds,thousands of this somebody…
While canvassing for Democratic candidates, I spoke with a MAGA Republican who told me that his neighbor was a trans woman. He believed that being trans was a mental illness because God made you either a man or a woman, so gender can’t change. He asked me, rhetorically, “Have you ever thought that you were a…
Denial is a statement, it’s not happening again, it won’t happen again. I refuse to let it happen again, I state, as if I control anything… As though I didn’t run away during the first term, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and being a dual Canadian-American citizen. I did, until the pandemic dragged me back…