Local Gestures
because the personal is cultural
Choose your pain Carefully Only sometimes Can the beautiful houses By the highway lead you to Recognize: you’d rather not get it Than not have it in this Beautifully designed, artless world And I am left To wonder Where one finds Comfort today, in a world Where the only people Who ever meet IRL Are barebackers – but, Of course, the problem With cumming is After The smallworldness of Everything can only be Glimpsed at in a foreign city Or on a pill, and even then It will only bring you The comfort of these words: You will always be As alone as this So you turn To a non-memory of A real love as you reach The limit of loneliness, you Turn to the thought Of a year of kissing, You turn to the floor – flat Against your back – and as tears escape Your closed eyes and slide Down your temples, you Realize: the humanness of me
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Sylvain Verstricht
has an MA in Film Studies and works in contemporary dance. His fiction has appeared in Headlight Anthology, Cactus Heart, and Birkensnake. Archives
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