Poetry by runner up Camonghne Felix
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………………………………………………………..Year: ‘02
………………………………………………………………..radio; disney
…………….Judy; Blume
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…………………………………………..Hey; god; it’s; me;
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……………………………………………..cognitive; behavioral; therapy
…………..moby; dick
……………………………………..p;t;s;d
…………………jesse; mccartney
how; to; know; if; boys; like; you
………………………………..how; to; get; blood; out
………………………………………..how; to; know; if; girls; like; you
lesbians;
………………………………………………….how; to; overdose
……………………how; to; make; yourself; quiet; forever
………………………………………………………………………………mute;
Killing the Form
Am I allowed to disrespect the form. Am I allowed to instead proclaim that the he’s raped me. That it just happened. And that I was small and formidable, a fruit or something else taking in from the sun and expanding. Am I allowed to say that I didn’t write it for you. Am I allowed to say that I’ve fucked four women and three men and owed nothing in the aftermath. Am I allowed to say that I didn’t do it for him or because of him, or to heal, or to mitigate the universe’s monopoly on wellness – but to be an organ in post survival, a dim sound existing retroactively, a full circle sold.
“In what way is the instinctive connected with the compulsion to repetition?”*
Boobs
Breasts, is that all you got?
Boobs
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. .consent
. .Blck, is that all you got?
. .absence
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I am happening in public & cannot bear the trope of it
……………I am taking it off.
..
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……………..Spell blck
………………………………………compulsively
to make blck
……………………………….art.
Camonghne Felix is an MFA Candidate at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the 2013 recipient of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women. You can find her work in various publications including Pank Magazine, Specter Magazine, Bayou Magazine, Union Station, No Dear, For Harriet and other places. Her first chapbook “Yolk” will be published in March of 2015 via Penmanship Books. www.toskateonsun.tumblr.com
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