BLOOD LASER
i have come to know girlhood & unfortunately am still there:
folded in the rain room face apocalypse
failure not the movement of fluidity though certainly its residual
& agency leaky a spokesperson antique authority needn’t
like a crease a shape is set whom we try to hear if we can’t hear everyone
like a lamellaphone my back of me or the sword damocles
kit-building repair culture & the fact of the fad itself honorific
is the opposite of honorific what? my sympathies to matter
an attempt at due reflexivity? whether any
retribution music pleased?
when information loses its occasion i know how to move with different lives
the crawl significant us all being lesbians nowadays
i mean you can barely assemble a team let alone rob
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HEAT WRITING
for ༄sophia࿐.⋅ from the bath, dominos, & mandrakes an order to destroy ❀*̥
mwahhh❀*̥˚
empathy was yesterday
today we have something the enemy does not
chandeliers off calvin’s popping pajama peppers big frozen
you can’t even eat right
you are an easy target for transference
less the smoke of yap & more the plasma to practice defense
even snakes hold angle grinders like a cord knitted in mold
i remember asking the generic human question evil or whether sitting in trees
labor was hot
on urainus
raining diamonds
kids tossed jacks metal hedgehogs made technical down streetlamps
we licked cupcakes off caterpillars & flew walnuts over yellow dragons
we burned badges off hästens como soy un hostage
wilding you moved to colorado & sung regulation songs for whiteness
the proliferation of display possibilities a border gore
you can’t even smoke anymore…
imagine critique a difficult person test
it too the characteristic an incident report
& now even more community property
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SMOOTH DIFFERENCE
you bite me there
nothing new about virtual reality not even the soft imaja complain-y:
taskinsight:
i see it i show it i see it i show it
inside every lipstick a laser
death & furniture at least for me trapped water where
floating things are bones
who even cares about bugs? a dumb neck
a dumb neck dangling like a knee can they not be able?
where for & about of care are putting on myself from being in a wilderness
me me me me caprichoso me re administered events
for reasons of edges no se si he lo completado
a sensitive world? where
i see it inside a kiss adventure
building a bridge from big log letters across convention fetters wildlife safari
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homed
there are people who stay & people who go
coming creature the matriarch & phone
waving an artichoke mattering the stems
signs something unseen like trespassing sails tipping stars
draino & fabuloso over a wire fire cleanse
where places like this are built of girls such a thing as negative kinship
some stone islands some fence islands do not wanting the wretched
routed in flight land not even lifting your luggage
their closets blooming boulevards in the toyota
a miumiu plagiarist imperial registrar remember
the whiteness of parody ten years ago when men made presidents rap
& stayed studied out of reach the reassuring denial of their social world
waking up pressed bowling for waves over packets
twice as nice as photos get real
down a piazza feeding our kiddies feeling we-will’s off tourists’ in tuitions
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AMALIA TENUTA is a poet currently residing in Minneapolis. She is the author of the chapbook The Primitive Accumulation of Realness.
