liix

you would see us as spectacle
rape victim target practice
all four limbs shattered
discarded down the ravine

your friends laugh as we drown
your parents laugh as we drown
your siblings laugh as we drown
your children laugh as we drown

and you’re just like them
a cannibal waiting on a dog whistle
all meat to a caucus of carnivores
liberalist unification; four billion dead women

did you always dream of subservience?
a mindless tool gripped by fascist hands
how fucking pathetic it must be
to exist only in obedience to hatred

i’ve learned to pray again
that every trans person gets to heaven
and for every bigot hell awaits
die sad and alone, scum

existence in poetry //

transgender,
hopeless sapphic
gothic romantic //

revelations in love,
despair, hope
failure, beauty
death, personhood
resistance, healing //

non-indigenous woman
dwelling in Naarm
on lands sovereign
to the Wurundjeri people
this always was
always will be
Aboriginal land
paytherent.net.au //