(Untitled)

By: Elizabeth R. McClellan

oh my body

that man said you keep the score

but maybe if we were better friends

we could play for pennies

instead of the lonely

5 am bathroom darkness

where we lay down our cards now?

---

Elizabeth R. McClellan is a white disabled gender/queer neurospicy demisexual lesbian poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chikshaka Yaki land. Kan work has appeared in libre lit, ecopunk literary, Strange Horizons, beestung, Utopia SF and others. Ka is a past winner of the Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award with work forthcoming in Haven Spec, Last Girls Club magazine, and more. In kan other life, ka is an attorney with many years experience in domestic and sexual violence prevention. Find ka on bsky as popelizbet or on Patreon as ermcclellan. 

Bluesky