a mountain range in my jeans,
i have lived through two dozen cocks
and am still unsatisfied.
this funhouse mirror body
fucks in lowercase letters
and has become real, real thin.
i don’t want to be a father
but i also don’t want the inability
to become one.
how emo, to be chromosomally
unable to play a part
in the swelling catastrophe
of a population boom.
how goth, my genius can’t outrun
the silence of a fertility doctor
when i ask if there
was ever even a chance.
Matt Mitchell is a writer from Ohio. He is the author of The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and Vampire Burrito (Grieveland, 2023). See Matt in issue Thirteen. TWITTER
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