“Unprocessed GMO-free abstracts from a human body” by Percy Amichai Hill

You’re torn between desire and enjoyment, which are not the same thing I can barely remember that room but I think I used to sleep on the bottom bunk. 1. 2. If I could understand, then I could love you. 3. [Read 8:09 PM] As a child I had two pieces of gum stuck under my desk; one for shame and one for language. It’s no wonder I’m a poet. I’m deeply embedded in honey and poison. I’m I’m masquerading as the man of your dreams / dress me up like the answer to your prayers I’m I’m draw me like you want to be darling / kiss me like you want to be torn I’m I’m But don’t cry for me, I said. Cry for you. im still figuring out how to be a person figuring out how to be a monster just a shadow just a loud song screaming take that tongue and use it! im a machine powered on impulse an engine full of pop-rocks I’m playing Legend of Zelda on my 3DS in the girls’ bathroom and I’m the graffiti on the door STATING 1. less violence 2. more shrines to megamind 3. i didn’t have a marker, i carved this with my keratin
4. 5. six years later my body is now a shrine to megamind do i want to love you? fuck you? become you? this three-point line is very thin Finale. Encore. don’t let my branch tap your window as i grow and assume that is as tall as i will ever be

Percy Amichai Hill (He/him)
Percy Amichai Hill is a still-yet-emerging poet (still escaping his cocoon, not yet a fully-fledged butterfly). You can find more of his work on Twitter @olicketysplit (forthcoming) and at lianlianmin.wordpress.com. You can also find him on Twitter @lianlianmin.