like, if she’d seen this fifteen years ago

if she’d seen the girls who like birds and heard the

severin-as-a-she speaking

venus is a boy and he’s

welcoming you to queer graces man

Gabrielle tells us of a dream

ripping up the carpet and the floorboards and the concrete but

baby

baby girl

they couldn’t remove our braces

couldn’t halt the queer spaces

couldn’t rid the places of the girls who like to sit on other girls’ faces

man, if she’d seen this fifteen years ago

she would have understood that fucking haircut

and the hyperventilation

when she says

I’ve just been having

such strange feelings

the latest?

putting your tongue in another girls’ mouth

is not linear behaviour



*‘severin-as-a-she’ and ‘venus is a boy’ are references to Gabrielle Everall’s poem ‘The birth of Venus as a boy’