body as language

what it means to look like slang

dirty slants and informal screeches of rough

described as patchwork’d historical

 

what it means to offend a body

s(he sounds like xylophone ring or

alto soprano hybrid twang

 

those others coat their bodies in pavement

those others laugh with mouths open or

gesture like elephant’s roam

 

s(he is revised syllabus from next year’s queer studies

what it looks like to pause inside bones &

break off a newly translated movement