Jack Henry – Cajun Mutt Press

breasts

i wish i could wear a blouse
unbuttoned just enough
to collect your gaze,
my breasts just big enough
to draw your lust,
but not your rage or
your terror,
just enough to allow me
to be me,
free onto myself and
to no one else,

i wish i had breasts
just big enough to fulfill
my affirmation, my sense of reality,
but not so big to incite your anger,
not so big to allow for your vulgarities
and violence,
an opportunity to be murdered,

but then my birth did not
provide this opportunity
and my fear and age will not allow me
to take that chance –

jacklyn henry is a transfeminine genderqueer writer based on the fringe of sanity, Los Angeles. recent efforts have been rewarded with publication at: fifth wheel, wicked gay ways, ariel chart, flying dodo, pink disco, H S T, sun & moon, and elsewhere.

honorarium

i have a disability
a madness
my hair is thinning
and my pants don’t fit

i struggle with language
and timing
with words on a page or
in a machine
i cannot not see straight
light remains dimming
telephones keep ringing

i live with an addiction
a sorrow
my pancreas is seizing
management is calling
my debts will not slow

i am addled with indecision
there’s a glow from a window
lightning keeps striking
my madness says hello

Jack Henry is a writer/publisher/editor living on the fringe in SE California. When not chasing demons and drag queens he has been known to write things that occasionally get published in places like: Beatnik Cowboy, Dumpster Fire Press, Lucifer’s Retreat, SCAB magazine, Pure Slush, and others. His latest book, driving w/crazy (PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS) can be found on Amazon in the animal husbandry section.

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