Untethered Spinning As the thread Cuts and binds Violent kaleidoscope The performance: Hush, don't you cry I'm [LINE] (brave) brave I'm [LINE] (independent) independent I'm cardboard flattened I don't give a fuck about these compostable zines telling me how to liberate myself through the length of my hair I want her to look at me, talk to me like I'm not a bomb she can't disarm like I'm not all the ways that she went wrong like she isn't another sad queer Latina statistic mother interrupted 40 were erased, silenced or forced to pretend, 0 were welcomed, celebrated or soothed All severed raw nerves to to twist in the dry sun like a gnarled root unattached unbound (out and proud)