A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Author:Billy-Ray Belcourt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2020-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

I have no one to ask if it’s bad writing or not. I put it here because I suspect it doesn’t matter.

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Titles of novels I have tried to write thus far:

Critical Race Theory

The Museum of Political Depression

A Beast of Burden Is a Beast Nonetheless

Bad Lover

It’s Lonely to Be Alive!

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The summer I had hours-long anal sex while battling a bout of hemorrhoids was an object lesson in entropy. The rectum is an affective sinkhole. There is a big secret about sex: most people don’t like it,2 I mumble to myself as blood drips from me into a toilet. I’m a sculpture on which the artist chose not to leave a signature. If I continue to romanticize sex, to pontificate in public about how it combats the suffocations of individuality, it’s because sex is one of the few social interactions I choose that remind me of my unending penetrability. When I’m tangled in the body of another, something inside me shouts: Even your precarious psyche isn’t yours to mother!

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