As/Is







6.30.2004


ladyqueer

red catches
your eye first in
it is the best wavelength
for being noticed that's why
these lips

are outlined in
red Clinique Vintage Red
it's good enough for
me you'd eat me

if it didn't smear
and if I wasn't already
bitter she swears by
cunt red

Mac Dubonnet,
the other one she
wears her hair long
snarled over her shoulders.

stiff somehow,
the tendons in her
neck too long and brittle
so it hurts to touch,

but

we're

ladies ignoring
the way sex smells
earthen ignoring the
mildew over us ignoring
our

different

tastes.

shut your mouth, that
offends my delicate
sensibilities.