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04/28/2019
JAREDPEARCEPOETRY
Stay tuned over the next five days to see Jared Pearce's FIVE NEW POEMS placed in Adelaide Literary Magazine!
Here's poem #2!
CUTTING
One would have her leg
hacked, another an arm—
such appendages seem easy
to divide. But others went
for fashion: buttocks
and trim the thighs, or my head
must be ten percent my body
mass. And some for bits to cheat
loss by removing every other toe,
one ear, the incisors, hair.
Until she said her
too big breasts, worthless
lobes, too in-the-way,
too defining, the two great balls
chaining me to womanhood,
making me a sex—these stones
strapping me in a drowning
when what I want is to be held
with a light grace, apart
from what I am or am not.
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