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to make women look dead and fill a
room with them. And he’s called a monster.
I should be in love with motherfucking
Edward Cullen I guess. I guess I’m
a fool to love Kanye. And everybody
    can just freak when “   
   ” too.

HYBRID
    Kanye is Horus, or another Egyptian god.
He is a merman, a centaur, the Minotaur.
    And less mythical, too—a zorse,
a sand sunflower, a Lonicera fly.
    Kanye is half cannon, half ballet.
Half canonical, half prey.
    Half my Man of Sorrows.
Half my son.
    Half an idol for my son.
Half an idol of diamonds and gold.
    Oh god,
Kanye is half what makes my heart.

GAZE
    featuring Catie Rosemurgy
    Most of the privilege has been off the page.
    A white woman has privilege but not power.
A black celebrity has privilege but not power and also discrimination.
    Has it in his hands, his hood, buried in the pavement against his face.
    A white Jewish woman has privilege until she’s traveling in France.
    Then riots start. Schools and synagogues firebombed.
    â€œDirty Jew” written on a statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris in 2005.
    What does hiding look like?
What does it look like today?
    Most of the violence takes place off the page, as is always the case.
    The ultimate test of the privilege: the violence.
    A black celebrity has privilege as much as he doesn’t have privilege.
Or not as much. Up and down. Plummeting. Pummeling. Depending.
    A white Jewish woman gets privilege from her mother’s Irish married name. Except for all those signs.
    No N****s, No Jews, No Dogs
No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
No Jews Allowed
No Irish Need Apply
    If it weren’t for the print on the signs.
    For the most part, the violence is not on the page.
    A white pregnant woman has privilege but also shortness of breath, also judgment.
    My ring doesn’t fit on my finger anymore.
    â€œWhat did you think?” I asked her.
She shrugged, “Teen mom.”
She smiled like I was her darling.
    A black pregnant woman has privilege but worse judgment and also discrimination.
    Still comfortable on her finger, impossible to swell out of, or we would have all done that already.
    In the Holocaust the barrel of a gun was shoved up the vagina of a white pregnant Jewish woman and her baby was shot and so she was.
    Is 70 years a long time?
    For the most part, this page is not violent.
    For the most part, this page is privileged.
    A pregnant woman has privilege until the boys won’t make room for her to get off the bus.
    But when I ask, they do. Another form of privilege. A birch tree I’m peeling bark from, so I can make a boat, so I can get out of here, so I can come back in the spring. So I’m asking.
    And it sounds like, Move. You have to move.

TEETH
    Do all the children’s teeth come in like razors?
    Noah’s hurt face when our son bites.
    Will Kanye stick his finger in his goddaughter’s mouth?
    Every washed finger on her gums.
    Kanye’s gold teeth are like toy soldiers for a little emperor tongue.
    Or, welded together, the castle.
    Moat inside his lower lip. My finger, the drawbridge.
    If I could touch him there.
    Does every mother remember the first tooth?
    Milk tooth.
    I run my tongue along the back of my own dull teeth.
    One can lose attachment to weariness.
    I understand. But in dreams, they are handsome again.
    When teeth should not even be in dreams.
    Why am I not flying? Why am I not covered in gold?

KANYE RAPS, “   
   ,” PART 1
    Paris is most definitely Kanye.
    Helen, then, is Kim Kardashian.
    King Menelaus is a great number of men in America.
    Achilles. I’m not sure yet who Achilles is.
    Hera is Beyoncé.
    Athena is Nicki Minaj.
    Aphrodite is the night, which allows for things like this.
    The Trojan War is the sex itself.

KANYE IS GLAMOROUS
    OH “ THE NEW BLACK??? ” SINCE BARACK IS PRESIDENT BLACKS DON’T LIKE FUR COATS, RED LEATHER, AND FRIED CHICKEN ANY MORE?! WHEN YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND CULTURAL