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HOWLING PRESS
POLITICAL POETRY
RACIST AND FEMINIST ARE FUCKBUDDIES IVY EDAD
racist and feminist are fuckbuddies who sporadically text each other about their days. feminist asks, did you think about the world today? as she digs through her purse filled with pussy power pins and free the nipple stickers. not just your world, all of it, she adds. it takes two seconds for racist to respond, if i visualize all problems as daggers pointing directly at me i’ll eventually bleed to death. so are you still bleeding? feminist sends, i’m not on my period. racist sends the time he gets off at work. feminist types out, if you look at the daggers directly you’ll know how to dodge them, come out with cuts but no fatal wounds. feminist lets the message sit, burning a whole through her highwaisted pockets. racist messages feminist about a coworker who got yelled at by a customer, the service stolen in translation, it’s annoying, he types. feminist hits send, spends the rest of her day on Bustle, googles women’s suffrage, receives a message from racist saying, okay, i have problems too i can’t deal with everyone else’s. feminist realizes she is the fatal wound, is not white, that when women got a vote, she wasn’t even considered a body. So she replies, did you know that because i’m not like you i’m more likely to get hurt? racist answers with a question, because you’re sensitive? feminist replies, because im brown and a woman so somehow my life is worth less than yours. racist immediately types out, it's a big world, we’re all made of bone anyways. feminist learns labour, how it feels like stabbing herself in reverse. feminist learns feminism wasn’t started for her. feminist learns racist is a white jackass, throws her pussy pins away, starts replacing gendered letters with x, tells people they go by they.