Future Queer
a wrinkle
a typist
young thriving
expression
proud to be
proud inside
closetless
will never
afford a home
but makes
family anyway
finds them
like seashells
on an untrodden
beach
triple
the stomach is the floor
the floor is lava
the lava is a river
this river does not drown
the not-drowning is fire
the fire is a metaphor
the metaphor glows
the glow is orange
the orange is in every scene
the scene is in the film easy a
easy a is a triple entendre
a lutz, an axel, a transmission
your first car the honda
the honda with the shoddy transmission
the transmission of a virus in your lifetime
your lifetime, your donation
the bank always needs blood
but yours is dirty
the blood is oranges
the blood is in every scene
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Author photograph by Allie Tissot
