Morgan Lacomba Pearse is a disabled queer writer and artist based the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of the hybrid graphic novella Spay Your Baby (nico fontana, 2021). She holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University.
therefore i am
in the blistering pale
twilight from the cold
shadows you eyed
me and we didnt fuck
then but later that night your
sharpened teeth brushed me here
on the clavicle and i screamed did you hear
now i’m an indoor cat pale
as a baby i stare at my phone until your
name appears like cold
water from nowhere to fuck
with me i hide my smile and my eyes
but my eyes have magnets and your eyes
are magnetic and here
is what fucks
me up your god is pale
and does not maintain a sleep schedule like cold
pressing cold tunnels so when dawn breaks you’re
feeding as you fuck
blood on your
hands means nothing to the pale
hearted you suck hard on the prize from my minds eye
i’ll give you my smallest organs if you stay here
forever it feels good your cold
hands don’t feel cold
as they scratch the word fuck
into my guts i’m just happy to be here
a terminal peach inside the walls of your
fortress i will haunt its halls in perpetuity
i will be glamorous ghastly glowing and pale
it’s so cold that it feels hot that you’re
doing that thing with your fucking eyes somewhere else
picture in picture you’re not even here