planet earth III

Benin Gardner

Sometimes I let bad things happen because they can be undone but when they can’t… I’m a hopeless frog in your laundromat my spine is the length of a perfume sample I’ve begun, inexplicably, to dream of spare heels in sex cars and nightclubs next to just-blown volcanos there’s this shredded chimp vagina this bludgeoned jackfruit dragging the Ugandan jurisprudence it informs me that globalization is a tenement apartment like the one I fucked you in before me flicker tasteful cinematics of chiming hazel dogs eating my roommate she evolved to be exactly this afraid I pet the rabbit fur ushanka feel toward it a useless maternal emotion it shivers black light I pet it again and again the salt on the road glitters like meth at a lavender angle we’ve babysat this night before the EBT screen broachingthe subject of faith snow accrues—it thinks I’m dead dead like a mother monkey

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Benin Gardner is a writer and dancer from Los Angeles living in Ridgewood, Queens. Her work has appeared in Vagabond City, Bad Egg, Expat Press, dreamboybookclub, and SARKA journal. You can read her stuff at moshfeghpilled.substack.com. 

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