this is what a queer person . . .

i have a straight looking face and a short body but there is a well between my legs that only ladies in tuxedos fall into
when you find me in the woods you mistake me for a fawn but i am an opossum under cover arriving from the Cretaceous period
i eat paw paws and dine on rotting meat

when we play house you walk on me like I am floor made out of particle board but i am made of aged oak and iron nails my spine runs like a railroad track from canada to kentucky bearing the weight  of  exposed timber cut by lumberjacks who drink heineken and make love to the sounds of american idol
when i pass you see only predictable box cars, spray painted and rusty but there are six sleeping human beings wedged between my spinning wheels turning with the motions of going nowhere living through in between bodies indistinguishable from one another making love like starfish

eating paw paws and dining on rotting meat

- Sherieb

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