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ambient noise

from contingency by alyssa kai

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someone walks by in a beautiful skirt
canvas went rustling by through the screen
the seams cut a line tween the snow & the sky
I cannot tell ya the ways that it hurts
someone made steps there with beautiful poise
striking a hit with their beautiful digs
strutting their leggings past where I sit with my
boring performative ambient noise

someone with pretty hip jeans on their thighs
floats by my table to pick up a drink I
stand here unblinking stuck here unstable I
stay in this basement with tears in my eyes
you wear what you like what you like is a choice
& you chose a desire for pretty hip jeans
with my heart on my sleeve I would only expire in
boring performative ambient noise

somebody tries on a gorgeous new hive
dangling tails on their blushing red ears yeah
maybe the queers we're all destined to fail but
some of us wear what we need to survive
if I wore my true colors you wouldn't enjoy
the bleeding & mismatching colors of thread
patchwork imperiled dead-set crosshatching more
boring performative ambient noise

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from contingency, released January 27, 2016

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alyssa kai Greenfield, Massachusetts

writer and performer living in western massachusetts.

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