Breadcrumb #619

JOANNA VALENTE

Is it queer

    enough

to die young, still with breath

    a body emerging gender

            a gender foaming 

           from body, body waves in snake-shaped seas

    not even sailors dare travel

                and we don’t have a choice but 

                        to make choices

on presentation and poise and pose and manner

                            isms

and what are bad manners when all manners are bad?

                Is there a proper question we should

            be asking ourselves

                    or is it all too late 

                            already anyway?

            [or have all points already been null?]

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