This is a Body • Requiem / For Victor Gutierrez
This is a body / and this body is this thing of terror—how / in this world every / woman is a survivor and every…
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You are younger than her labor for [redacted aircraft manufacturing company]. -
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ReadI wanted to wash my face and my feet. I wanted to be invited somewhere.
I was being led by something. So tender and raw inside of my body that I can’t point to a specific place — there was me before I had ever seen a dam. -
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The week the pandemic hits, I break my lease in Little Haiti and drive fifteen hours up the I-95 to be with my parents. -
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I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, / You must see American, close your eyes and dream American -
ReadThere is No Other Way to Say This
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Readhere’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade
so let’s talk then about unruliness / how it defies the joys of order & everything / that’s missed.
