Content warning: unsanitary, eugenic ableism, gore, ableist & anti-sex worker slurs reclaimed
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after htmlFlowers // grant jonathon we :: abhorrence of violated future-lost revileds dripping prophets of abled demise carriers of glib disease whoring our bodies to medicine while we gutter roll the streets on our backs begging violence from an emptied moon that loves us through her fever a buried ocean that has forgotten how to sing her emptied wife through birthing bloody fecal prayers :: your funerals after endless apocalyptic hemorrhaging the beetles and maggots consuming what you called you after funerals have gone out of style and we all rot in the remnants of streets gutted and fetid fish caught and sliced and abandoned when oil slicks slip from our sclera :: vicious snapping commodities devoid of capitalist gain commodifying our snarling survival until we take you into our writhing underbelly into our oozing cunts into our hovels built of bone and gristle intestine colon viscera festering under the sink piled into your throat :: all you hoard putrefying all you press distant creeping close— pink insulation sticky with nineteen thirty-nine consensual homicides in your attic drywall peeling parting from grey sludge hidden between your world and what you have graciously granted us while we overstay our unwelcome beneath your heavy feet plastic doll heads filled with molding toothpaste corvid skulls unearthed still gripped in tangling milkweed roots algae growing 'round the edges of your eyes nostrils aorta vertebral foramen :: well , come into this unsprung mattress , empty handed con man , if your answer sates our shrivelled cripple gut— what offal bring you , to please our whoring hearts ?
q is a white queercrip dykefag artist, sex worker, and death doula, primarily living, working, creating, and dying on the land of the Ts’elxwéyeqw tribe of the Stó:lō nation. A formerly-homeless high school-dropout, its workshops and writing are grown from joy and spite found in Mad queer disabled and ill community.
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