“LG_TQ” by Erin Kirsh
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LG_TQ
By Erin Kirsh
She _ites my lip just a nip
a fizzing
on my skin
we wait at the _us station
under zeeting streetlights
they crackle like a chip _ag
I envy the susurration
from the am_er halo, want to tell her
“see, that is what is generating the electricity
not your z axis cheek_ones
or the _atting of your eyelashes
it’s infrastructural, not _etween us”
and she’d _e nonplussed
never considered us source material
_ecause she doesn’t date
girls like me _ut she likes kissing me
and I like _eing kissed _y her
she’s a human power plant in thick
lipstick she says she wishes
I were all the way gay
I tell her sometimes I do too
when I get home stum_le
to the _athroom, grind the faucet
cradle water, splash my neck
where her kiss
imprinted. I ru_ the pigment
it doesn’t come off
it streaks. I feel Picasso drawn. Cu_ist.
Dissected wrong. The mark looks
like a _ruise.
Copyright © Erin Kirsh
Previously published in Plenitude.
Erin Kirsh is a writer and performer based in Vancouver. Her work has appeared in Plenitude, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, EVENT, Geist, and more. She can be found in a city near you grumbling about needing to use QR codes to access menus.
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