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by Koss
Co-opted familial narratives, blood shares, habits and Band-Aids; Facebook fuck-offs; shallow/egg trays; three monkeys, vapor. Those were my socks you stole. Those were my stories you stole. Your eyeliner is too thick. Boy George did it best, and the trans woman at the health food store is better than you. Once, I protected you—we had our own language.
Koss is a queer writer with work in Chiron Review, diode poetry, Five Points, Midway Journal, San Pedro River Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and others. Their chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, a Lammy finalist, is available from Diode Editions.
