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To The Girl Who Will Play Me In the Movie

know this—you better be
i’m talkin weevils in the cornbread
plastic bag full of other plastic bags
vaseline cures all that ginger ale & garlic
on the feet cannot
be called fast before you could feel desire
mama smack you in the mouth for suckin your teeth
white boys want a piece of you but can’t handle your politics
be beautiful
be loud

be
as the moon & the sun when they cross each other

be do we got beef
be you got a problem
i wouldn’t even mind if you was a little bad girls club
be disappear into the midnight
be never returning his calls
be too bad and too boujee
be boys from suburbia wanna corrupt you and they will

know this—the boys from suburbia will steal everything
they tongue down & when those lights come up
on whatever soundstage you are being me on, your skin, or what’s left
will shimmer like the dust of
diamonds where their greedy hands peeled back
your apprehension & pillaged your want
be well aware of them. do not love them
do not let them meet your parents
do not tell them you can’t have children
do not become their first anything. you
will never be their last

be their worst nightmare, though. the absence, premature
& canyon-like, he wanted to leave
instead of you
be laughing at silly ass white boys and their feelings
& when you say goodbye to HIM, the one who birthed it all
be
as a bullet carelessly tossed to the Mississippi air
belonging to him only so long as he bleeds.

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Khalypso is a Sacramento-based activist, actor, and poet. They are fat, black, neurodivergent, queer, and badass. Their work can be found in Calamus Journal, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Rigorous Journal, Wusgood Magazine, and Shade Journal, as well as a few others. Their collection, THE HOTTENTOT LIGHTS THE GAS HERSELF, was a runner-up for the Two Sylvias Chapbook Contest. They are a Leo-Virgo cusp, they want to be your friend, and you can find them on Twitter @KhalypsoThePoet.
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