Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao

Author:Sally Wen Mao
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Bullies

In 1997, the days were long, the sun

bloodshot, and Mountain View, CA smelled

like duck shit. Those days, everyone’s mind

was a sex tape on repeat. Hirsute rumors

clogged the shower drains. When young girls

disrobed together in a locker room, rancor

smelled like petunias. The whole stink glowed

with mutant love. In 1999, tremors erased

my larynx. Voice mails flooded with cackles,

inboxes sneered. Late afternoons, my legs

greened Granny Smith-style, and I believed

when they called me leviathan.

Ovoid girl—black hair, burnt skin, snaggletooth

and sexless ruin. I saw tumors grow the size

of California. Nobody spat. Only suggested.

Give this up. Shucked each desire.

Evenings, when I was finally free, I saw crushed stars

roll into the thistle field. On that pungent summit

I was a gutter, a bountiful gutter. I collected

clean rain. I was a passageway to the open shore.

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