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Slam poetry
yikes Poetica I want you to choke me Isaid this is my doppelganger recently
only he was the version of myself still
in denial about balding, we met her
Starbucks because yes I'd like some
coffee with my cream and sugar GrubHub
keeps emailing me asking me if
I want falafel today and I for one feel exposed
this is a person with a poetry quote of
a white man saying see me tattooed on
his arm my friend tells me that same
poet likes flirting with boys decades
younger than him and now all I want to
do is cover up his words with the
cathedral after complimenting my back
tattoo the man in the locker room shower
asked if I played music I said it's not
the kind of music you'd expect
it's like Fall Out Boy's thanks for the
memories only instead of memories sub
tweets Fadi says I'm happy for you
if you're happy for you and now his name
are Regina George it's summer out and I
think I like someone keep in mind I
felt at this poem become a nobody that
means I failed you
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Broken words
I'm all at once a well specifieddistance away from everyone I love and
that distance is measured in song
this means springtime is my saddest
music if my right arm is to be a river
and I left a sea then it follows that
there is a country between my arms it's
just not the country you'd expect is
there a word for
I want to carry a child
but my body cannot afford it in this
the language there's a daddy get the center
of this and yet this poem is fathered
nothing all the white suburban moms of
this reading have already canceled me
this means all the white suburban moms
everywhere watching this video have
canceled me this means half of the
the literary world has canceled me I'm not
asking you to make room for me in your
the language I'm just saying I want you to
synonym me aggressive I'm sorry if you
were expecting this poem to be in
English I wrote this in sorta English
and now I'm his doppelganger I wrote
this is sorta English and now it's a
take over
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I wrote
this underwater to say choke meevery time we kiss I triangulate the
distance between me and you and the
the ocean it's not the kind of
you'd expect I mean I think this poem is
a drunk tweet went wrong I wrote this i
an airport to say choke me the poem is
hemorrhaging now like it's a promise
worth breaking I'll fawn like I
Persephone need I'll go to hell like I
deserve it I'll daddy issue oblivion are
you myself before the damning silly
human your English is always a verb listen
to gendered things your pronouns have
always been a thing done to us once a
man trespassed in me and I want him fire
anted to death
I want to resurrect him from oblivion a
second time just to curse him to another
loveless eternity just to prove we can
both get away with murder if you're
reading this I promise I cried in the
airport for you believe me when I say I
love the way the light holds me stronger
than any lover.
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