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“Contracting”

Contracting

 

is the basis

for the 14th Amendment of the

10th body, which is

the body’s body.

 

The House’s Body is an echo

of structure. Then there is

the People’s Body vs the Absent

Mind. If absent body, absent mind; if absent mind

then Due Process Clause gestures at

and drives.

 

Absent Mind is a conglomerate of

disembodied bowels with colonoscopy

bags hanging from a segment

of light, emitted from

the spectral kidney, which is

delayed on gutted infrastructure,

perhaps the F train.

 

The People’s Body is open-secret dominated

by gays; did you not receive

our communique?

— Went out last week to everyone

on recent planets. Queers fake

marginality — until the remaining come out —

toward a policy change.

“How many Nazis were in the closet?”

someone shouts at Stonewall — a riot

that became a parade that is on its way

to be a riot again.

i.e. we are the majority

by far / in numbers, or gay is

as gay fucks.

 

This poem is Contracting. In other dimensions,

my guard dog names me

“Hollow Means”— misidentifying pussy

with void. The Majority: People who identify

as women are                           contracting everywhere,

which is a deliberation.

 

The only reason they permit

the styles to change: prevent an all-out

war. i.e. People are wearing flats in Congress,

and on the red carpet, which is

insane. High heels are finally only

for people who want them.

 

My red carpet is cumtangled,

klepto-cunt contracting around

whatever I want:

luke, 100-footer, no

cliterference.

 

Absent Mind doesn’t even know our words

beyond their falsehoods

of bed death.

 

Peculiar, they used to say;

steady, stands up on the night train, a real

shadows girl, someone who prefers the hour

just after dusk, irregular, fond of her health,

a gal with her own library card,

“pays her own way”; I hyena

laugh, permit me.

Contributor
Maura Pellettieri

Maura Pellettieri is a poet and prose writer. Her work has appeared in The Literary ReviewDenver QuarterlyThe Kenyon ReviewFairy Tale ReviewTammy JournalGuernica and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in California.

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