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theratking
theratking
23/Transgender Male/Boston Lover of falling.
Bitter, sour, barely sweet, when I was in your tummy, you craved that acidic fruit, and even though we've since leaned towards different suns and fermented, it's still my favorite. Your twisted seed, what has become of me? Growing up your love was a grapefruit. Pulpy, complex cuts, precision with a tiny knife. It left a sting on my lips, but it fed me, and it gave me vitamins and it was juicy. This morning as I consume these two halves I think of us. Duplicate cells, my pink flesh and thick skin and biting taste, all from you. Both of us hollowed out and squeezed until we have nothing left to give, but we're still bright yellow on the outside.
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May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021 at 5:03 PM UTC
Grapefruit
Carved from marble,                                                    marvelous and draped in my covers,                                         floating above my head in a puff of smoke or                                                                                  as a cartoonish memory I stay in bed today, peeking through the blinds. Surrounded by no one but my soft and artificial menagerie, I'm bubbling at the lip. There are sacks of rice sitting right above my hips and they're heavy. Who will help me hold them? Pressing a thumb to the surface and wincing; I can feel the grains shifting under my skin. Today I cooked the rice.                                                                                                                                                                                                             , I swear. Heat built up in the *** til steam was lifting off my skin^ Hard crunchy bits to tenderize, softening under the lid. When I felt that click, I broke out my wooden spoon and ate a big plate. The warm fluffy substance blessed my full cheeks and belly. For the first time, I felt like I wasn't hungry. Maybe tomorrow when I bathe I'll grow 3 or 4 times my size. Water-logged I will fill up the tub, ceramic squeezing my fleshy form into a rectangular shape. Stick a spoon in and eat me piece by piece.
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May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021 at 9:12 AM UTC
Rice Cooker
Carved from marble,                                                    marvelous and draped in my covers,                                         floating above my head in a puff of smoke or                                                                                  as a cartoonish memory I stay in bed today, peeking through the blinds. Surrounded by no one but my soft and artificial menagerie, I'm bubbling at the lip. There are sacks of rice sitting right above my hips and they're heavy. Who will help me hold them? Pressing a thumb to the surface and wincing; I can feel the grains shifting under my skin. Today I cooked the rice.                                                                                                                                                                                                             , I swear. Heat built up in the *** til steam was lifting off my skin^ Hard crunchy bits to tenderize, softening under the lid. When I felt that click, I broke out my wooden spoon and ate a big plate. The warm fluffy substance blessed my full cheeks and belly. For the first time, I felt like I wasn't hungry. Maybe tomorrow when I bathe I'll grow 3 or 4 times my size. Water-logged I will fill up the tub, ceramic squeezing my fleshy form into a rectangular shape. Stick a spoon in and eat me piece by piece.
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Sometimes in the morning I'll crack my back so hard, I think I might just snap in half.
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May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021 at 8:56 AM UTC
Snap in Half
Lake-wet and found forgiving, patch-work body and pasture-raised pleasure, rolling in the grass and basking in bare-skinned clarity. They were right, you are a fairy. Water filled to the brim, may I drink from your fountain, may I toss my pennies in, and is a wish like a prayer, or should I save my change for rain? Filling puddles like copper lakes, putting a snake in for Heaven's sake, splitting my own rib and calling it mate. When I first saw you it was just your reflection, you caught my attention, doubling your beauty with your liquid presence. I asked if I could come in and take a dip in your drip, you nymphaeum of bliss, and you said "Yes, yes but not yet.", like the breath we share before a kiss, like the moment before sunset, like the bed unmade around our shapes, like the ripples our forms in this pool radiate. I must grow gills because you took the breath right out of my lungs. Love me, Pisces, Venus smiles for us.
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May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021 at 8:50 AM UTC
Love me, Pisces, Venus Smiles for us.
I fell in love in the frame of a window. You looked at me and then turned the corner, and then the next, and then you were gone.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 10:53 PM UTC
Window
The wind pushes me 'cause I carry myself loose, sippin' ***** mixed with juice. Punch buggy, no punch back. If you hold my hand, I'll carry your axe.
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 1:01 AM UTC
I'll Carry your Axe
I walk as if I'm in a dream. my legs extend below me, rather than I above them. I take big strides with my hands in my pockets and a smile on my back.
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 12:56 AM UTC
Dream Stance
We stomp and we romp with our filthy, bare feet we jump and we bump in the high summer heat. Just skin, nails, and teeth stop when we see blood we are the ***** girls rolling around in the mud. We're queer, we drink beer in the park in the dark we yawp, twist, and shout and we jeer and we bark. We **** for the thrill in the sweet with sweat season; we say it's revenge, but we don't need a reason. Saturated plum flesh bursting between jaws, we are boundless, we are seeping, we are love without laws.
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 12:19 AM UTC
Love Without Laws