Rant #20

it's quiet serious what you can reveal once you drop the robe,

peeling back, shoulder once, shoulder twice

i'm always in the middle of redecorating 

which was once shamed by the possessive
the frenzy, the doctors

and the pathetically resentful

but i've licked it up since then

i've shed skin - twice - since then

i've listened to that hygrades album through and through

and i've realized, i'm a creator, i'm an artist, an innovator

i am small but relevant, i am illuminated,

imperative 

my mind stays in my books:

feminization of our breath(s)

my back wet from the bath:

elevating my darkness(es)

my fingers deep in my aesthetic:

slurpin on that lady(z) nectar