the-sarah-zine

Listen to a version of this piece performed live with

Ruben Sindo Acosta of

A Bunch of Dead People

and read a longer version on

Substack

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I hope

to have

a baby

For the body-horror angle

Making someone who can

Claw my insides,

wiggle out

Emerge with an IUD

Grasped by tiny fingernails

I’m so glad to have been

One of a lifetimes worth of your friends

I’ve found my sisters

they’re all they/thems

Up the street

I’m here for the she theys and gays

It’s all for you after all

And you dont have to say it back but

I’m glad to know you

to have been known

by you

To be something for you new

and fresh

and flesh and blooming mold spores in the

refrigerator door

I’m grateful to take my seat

in the audience of your life

and when you’re over it

I’ll love you still

In the meantime, here we are, finding ourselves

in leather-studded rooms, painted jackets

Sarah North Star

Sarah Attack

Sarah housing and feeding the friends our strangers become

Wrapped in the hammock