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having become nothing more than a place for immediate self-affirmation

        sunlight

       bleached

norwood park

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in its feline

anti-climbed

808-rattled

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dreamworld.

    frostbitten

    philadelphia

                          an aporia

         & soft, spit-swollen

                               dozes

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                       leather turf

             for leslie feinberg

in healing steam, nude for

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                         an exodus

              & envied, teased

           scores unacrobatic,

                 you were

                   sharing, 

    newly underworn

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             oversized & 

 itchy & kiss-asking, 

         your aftershave

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          your becoming

in old autumn fingers,

      my physical void. 

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Thomas Whittaker (they/she) is a writer of poems from South London. They write from a queer Marxist perspective about alienation under capitalism in the urban environment. She is currently particularly influenced by the writing of Antonio Negri, Heather McCalden's The Observable Universe and the music of E-40. They enjoy using obtuse basketball references in their work. She has been published by Passion of the Weiss, Impossible Archetype, Ouch! Collective and Corporeal among others. They are @thomaswithdoubt on Twitter and @acidsynthline on Instagram. 

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