IDENTITY: FEM 2016 Annual

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I scribble into Merriam Webster The definitions that define me.

white

whitelesbianmomswhitelesbianmomswhitelesbianmoms

military colonization genocide

genocide genocide

conquest.

European homophobes, witches, and bigots

cops and Tamir Rice

lesbian

Me straight men’s porn Isle of Lesbos – a place where women gather in love Homo Sapiens, homosexuality, homo fag inversion, paddywaggon AIDS the genocide. Audre Lorde disowned, homeless and still fucking dying.

mom

the face of my mother bloated womb love that carries more than one pulse love that carried my mother before me. 1, 2, 3 what would it take to leave a child, to leave me? see parents (Remember: People who grew up with a mom and a dad: Hitler, Ted Bundy,

children

Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Stalin…) legacy makers of immortality of the corn son or daughter, baby or young immaturity mashed from our mother’s tears. the violence of witness.

me

Me, a long time ago. labels confine the definition for which there is no word besides my name. I am.

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