I do not want to be a monster.
I do not want to be a cat.
If I want to be a sexy nurse or valet,
it will not be in public, where
My mask is used daily.
When it's off, the gaze
Sees caricature
In my skin.
Tell me,
What is it like to want
To be a monster?
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Issue 68
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- J. Mae Barizo
- Aziza Barnes
- Stephen J Boyer
- Wo Chan
- Cathy Linh Che
- Rio Cortez
- Maxe Crandall
- Justine el-Khazen
- Jessica Rae Elsaesser
- Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Monica Hand
- Ricardo Hernandez
- Paul Hlava
- Rosamond S. King
- Esther Lin
- Andriniki Mattis
- Vikas K. Menon
- Timothy Ree
- Danniel Schoonebeek
- Andrew Seguin
- Xena S Semjonova
- Vincent Toro
- Paul Tran
- Aldrin Valdez
- Jeannie Vanasco
- Tishon Woolcock
- Yanyi
- Elizabeth Zuba
Issue > Poetry
Rosamond S. King
Rosamond S. King, Ph.D., is a creative and critical writer and performer. Her scholarship and poetry have been published in over two dozen journals and anthologies, and in the award-winning Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. She has performed around the world.Poetry
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Hard to Say
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Mask of Wires
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