Romantic Gesture



Begin. A gold box with a bow. How nice.
And 2. Some are ivory, some are stone.
And 3. Stiletto boots with black buttons.
And 4. This necklace is. This music is
bump, bump-bump ba-bump bump.
And 5. Andy says hi. He’ll stop by
after he films these people kissing
for three minutes. He wants to know
if we have any blow. And 6. Take this.
Black glove and implement. And 7.
Of course you are—how nice—a water
fountain, sprung. And 8. Poor thing.
It doesn’t fit so I don’t want to wear it.
And even if it did.




Credits:
Director: The Cyborg Jillian Weise.
Musician: Tiny Jag.
Sound Engineer: Michael Reed.
Disability Justice Consulting: Haben Girma.
Voice-Over: Canese Jarboe.
Image Descriptions: Cy Weise.
Descriptive Transcript: Canese Jarboe and Cy Weise.
Source: Poetry (February 2022)