AUP New Poets 9 by Arielle Walker

Author:Arielle Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

my gender

my gender is a prince guitar solo

my gender is the shrill HA joanna newsom makes in ‘colleen’

my gender is karen o screaming ‘stress’ over and over again at the end of the

yeah yeah yeahs’ ‘mysteries’

i bide my time and bite my thumb and bind my boredom to myself

in the depths i ask questions:

can i sell my gender on trade me

can i use my gender to kill god

can i slow-cook my gender and feed it to my friends

i get no answers

with my gender i have a card house comfort

with my gender i am cavernous

with my gender i learn to curdle in the funhouse mirror

john milton wrote my gender as a poem that i memorised at birth

having been read it every day by a caring parent

and then i attend university to be taught it by fellow poets

eyes burned out at 9 a.m. from behind the podium

while i doodle my freedom on the refill

i bide my thumb and bite my boredom and bind my time to myself

foolishly, i’m asking more questions:

can i leave my gender with a grindr hook-up

can i reupholster my gender into a swivel chair

can i enchant my gender to make it more powerful against undead creatures

i know i won’t get answers

with my gender i am a beast of flux

with my gender i am a mediocre poet at best

with my gender i am caught in the headlight

i’d much rather read any other poem by john milton

which isn’t saying a lot because i quite like paradise lost and i fucking loathe

my gender

consider me always just slipping out the door

gone for a quiet moment or returning to bed –

eden’s fruit contently stuck between my teeth

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