[CARNAGE]
a muted longing for a
being of elsewhere without a
boundary or a
body like a
ball to throw me around in a
pig skin of public parts
of policies zero
privacies of every
body gets a
turn to frisk me of
numbered bodies &
trophied bodies &
saturated bodies &
colored bodies of being
bloodied in the streets flag
for ever a halfmast of
having knees only to
take one of finding
breath only to
lose it
Copyright Credit: Gabrielle Joy Lessans, "[CARNAGE]" from [a go]. Copyright © 2022 by Gabrielle Joy Lessans. Reprinted by permission of Ornithopter Press.
Source: [a go] (Ornithopter Press, 2022)