MAN-MOTH: NEWSPAPER MISPRINT FOR "MAMMOTH"
by Kamden Hilliard
after Bishop’s "The Man-Moth"
lyk yr friendly neighborehud Spider" " / the " "
moth nervously begins 2 scale the faces--
flippant, fair frantic enuf 2 break me critical race
queries. an abundance of sense is dangerous
4 the dream’s gloryhole / any possibility of desire //
church say amen bc yu’ve known an entire night
itself, hard w the specifics of desire. how Spidey’d
surely have ya w a wink-- or the " "moth's wrong
way full w terrible speed.
4 an awakening up the subject stoned / signified /
masturbated the self w evidence
was
2002’s Tobey Maguire
was
a lat 2 keep dreamin’ bak.
but, most importantly, perhaps, the hottest hero! o!
so Herculean[1]! so form! such natural! many nature!
b easy w my breezy willingness to b ya covered girl
o’ da week.
but also
[come on // desire is anything but simple]
those who read Butler are
rearranged
& hadn’t evr considered
what it means
2 b a prob.
Lizmom nvr read Butler & she sit w us. she give us good
" "moth but oh man. oh men. she still luv us even if we
end outside the frame. poor, too, Spidey, hu enjoys
6+ queerer in frame, but ends lighted in shame. fucc yu,
2002, 4 casting my lithe boy, primarily as a boy, but also
all aggrostr8. o woah damn do i miss Whitman’s wide wrld
of blackface and mult men folx.
after all-- the " "moth is so sad goth. the queer light shimmer
which mean he might have me; might snap
meh up in wings.
the moon looks rather different
small hole
round clean opening.
ii.
what it means
2 break blood
4 hi pleasure
we, out w friends
left the / ahem /
artificial tunnels
& wonder if they
kno what it takes
--what we’ve done?
iii.
2 get read in the rushing brain’s DMs we mustn't consider
the globally literate and monetized constructions
of Spidey’s shady nayborehood [defend
or condemn?]. just praise all heavy Spidey’s spandy
shadow dragging like a photographer’s cloth behind him.
limit critique & luk 4 luv in this bitch. 2 easy otherwise.
i need no information of whiteness, yo, but do require
a socio-cultural rebreather or trap covers of Miley or
that feeling where yu've reached the unreachable, & yu
weren't ready 4 it or a global willingness 2 reckon
w the kinda history willing 2 leave a" "moth luvless,
which, instead opts into men.
so 4 now we watch our wonder. we curl and question
how the fucc could one swim cross
avenues wout the occasional moose knuckle lol.
[1] a word i’d rather resist--i see yu whiteness and structural dependence upon western mythology-- but won’t / don’t but will the bitch into my twerking of the tongue and syntax anyway lmao
lyk yr friendly neighborehud Spider" " / the " "
moth nervously begins 2 scale the faces--
flippant, fair frantic enuf 2 break me critical race
queries. an abundance of sense is dangerous
4 the dream’s gloryhole / any possibility of desire //
church say amen bc yu’ve known an entire night
itself, hard w the specifics of desire. how Spidey’d
surely have ya w a wink-- or the " "moth's wrong
way full w terrible speed.
4 an awakening up the subject stoned / signified /
masturbated the self w evidence
was
2002’s Tobey Maguire
was
a lat 2 keep dreamin’ bak.
but, most importantly, perhaps, the hottest hero! o!
so Herculean[1]! so form! such natural! many nature!
b easy w my breezy willingness to b ya covered girl
o’ da week.
but also
[come on // desire is anything but simple]
those who read Butler are
rearranged
& hadn’t evr considered
what it means
2 b a prob.
Lizmom nvr read Butler & she sit w us. she give us good
" "moth but oh man. oh men. she still luv us even if we
end outside the frame. poor, too, Spidey, hu enjoys
6+ queerer in frame, but ends lighted in shame. fucc yu,
2002, 4 casting my lithe boy, primarily as a boy, but also
all aggrostr8. o woah damn do i miss Whitman’s wide wrld
of blackface and mult men folx.
after all-- the " "moth is so sad goth. the queer light shimmer
which mean he might have me; might snap
meh up in wings.
the moon looks rather different
small hole
round clean opening.
ii.
what it means
2 break blood
4 hi pleasure
we, out w friends
left the / ahem /
artificial tunnels
& wonder if they
kno what it takes
--what we’ve done?
iii.
2 get read in the rushing brain’s DMs we mustn't consider
the globally literate and monetized constructions
of Spidey’s shady nayborehood [defend
or condemn?]. just praise all heavy Spidey’s spandy
shadow dragging like a photographer’s cloth behind him.
limit critique & luk 4 luv in this bitch. 2 easy otherwise.
i need no information of whiteness, yo, but do require
a socio-cultural rebreather or trap covers of Miley or
that feeling where yu've reached the unreachable, & yu
weren't ready 4 it or a global willingness 2 reckon
w the kinda history willing 2 leave a" "moth luvless,
which, instead opts into men.
so 4 now we watch our wonder. we curl and question
how the fucc could one swim cross
avenues wout the occasional moose knuckle lol.
[1] a word i’d rather resist--i see yu whiteness and structural dependence upon western mythology-- but won’t / don’t but will the bitch into my twerking of the tongue and syntax anyway lmao
Bio: Kamden Hilliard is a reader at Gigantic Sequins, an editor at Jellyfish Magazine, and goes by Kam. They got posi vibes from The Ucross Foundation, The Davidson Institute, and Callaloo. The author of two chapbooks: DISTRESS TOLERANCE (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016) and PERCEIVED DISTANCE FROM IMPACT (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), Kam stays busy. Find their work in The Black Warrior Review, West Branch, Profane, and other sunspots. They even got a website: kamdenihilliard.com.