POETRY
WAISTLINE
Habitual Line Stepping: Crossing the Lines of Her Bodily Integrity
Warpers & extorters
…….exploit how it props up &
…………..pops out what’s above & below the wide of it.
Appellants & repellants
…….horn-lock on which chooser gets to choose
…………..what exists or not exists inside the pride of it.
Issues & tissues
…….mutate & mutilate & clot up
…………..& run amok skulkingly along the tide of it.
Stitchers & glitchers
…….grade & “upgrade” it when nothing
…………..whatsoever was wrong with the stride of it.
Theys & ways
…….seek to thrall it & wall it when
…………..all it wants to be is…………..weightless,
Loneless in its stance & red-tapeless,
Ill-less in the tympanums of stateless,
Nukeless in the narrows of safeless,
Effaceless…as…the moons.
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