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MERKIN
  “How do you know where the sky starts.  perhaps it is           touching your skin" 
                              
—​ Francesca Lisette

Bottomless I flop into the pool

Turn sunshine to chlorine green like a dying star

I could never place in a wet t-shirt contest

Stoya says ‘On a pedestal in a garbage can’

        Form is infinity broken

At 38 I’m completely transparent

Mortified by my basest fantasy

Fuck infinity, you’re as old as you feel

My sex floated above oceans before they receded

I saw the earth buckle, transform

A mountainside emerge from unbearable pressure

I reached down to hold my chest, invisible

Full of heat and insolvency, dry as a bone

Every day junk arrives in the mail

and it could be anyone it’s addressed to

Picture my name like the partition between two
bathrooms

This fountain won’t hold the weight

I’m topheavy, my mind is overflowing

My ass is unyielding, Nothing moral

to associate this feeling of needing more skin

I took the stud out and there’s still a hole in my
tongue

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Soft butch seeking hard femme seeking salvation

I wanted more than I knew

I felt it sucking me in

I bought a bralette at Gap Body

Its tenderness was rough 
        on the hottest day of the year

I rubbed a black calla lily on my ribs

In the meadow where everything grows under your breast

I wanted to see myself in a definitive history of the occult

Little blond boi spellbound by Nancy Sinatra

Secret goth gurl crushing on a velvet crop top

Fashion, the witch’s greatest friend

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Our thighs are ripe and hatched by stretch marks

Pale and skinny as tapeworms

Ever resistant to the effects of the California sun

They can all go fuck themselves 

        and thus unsexed be reborn

I steal a bodysuit at Aerie

There’re limits to what we understand

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