cryptobeauty // giantess - candice wuehle

[luckyzukky]

From inside the center
of my back, i grew an extra
arm. i tipped the top
of my breast b
one upward until it fixed
first with the light like leaves
in the canopy's upmost layer. Twilit, touched
first in the dark.
i tipped until the blades of each
shoulder met at my extra
elbow. Crook. The limb
wasn't my own
arm, but i let the biomass grow
because i know the clinging
root of an orchid really looks like the body and the head of a ball
python, its orbuculum-mouth unhinged to accept the largess
of the future. Natural magician, i
believe in abundance
. i believe in eating
until i bring silver
and gold back to life. Cryptobeauty
is the belief that it is easiest to be beautiful if the audience agrees
you are not and
it is easiest to be rich when you are also strange and
it is easiest to be rich in a strange currency and
it is best if you can eat
the money of others. Look,
you can spend this currency on what everyone doesn't agree with. Follow me at my
own risk, i'm brave as a heroine in a grave
yard. i'm inventing new lunches.
i'm not afraid to insist on
an extra meal
just to feed my beauty, to
grow the arm
that will wave as i leave
this world
and that will wave as i enter
the next. vince, what isn't a gesture
worth? i will set my hair on fire
to send the most spectacular
smoke signal. You are going to know what i am saying.
You are going to understand me.
vince, make a list of everything i will eat:
THE LIPSTICK THE MOUTH THE TELEPHONE THE SMOKE WITHIN THE SCRYING
STONE THE WAX THE HONEY THE HIVE THE HAIR THE TAN LINES THE MIRROR
THE MOUTH THE STAIN FROM THE MOUTH THE JELLY THE TRAIL OF THE
GASTROPOD THE LIGHT THE DARK THE OPENING OF THE CAVE THE COLOR DARK
THE COLOR SILVER THE COLD THE COLOR GOLD THE STICKINESS OF TAPE THE
INTERSTITIAL KISS THE SAP THE SKIMMED FAT THE FAT THE SECRETION OF THE
LIPS THE OIL THE EXTRA SKIN THE DUST THE PROFANE DUST THE SACRED DUST
THE EXTRA STARS THE DUST

(candice wuehle)
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