i don’t do this to be employable
deployable
i want to become water
–dissolve into queer relation
to confound the Researcher
we are a snake slipping through his killing hands
evading explication, extraction, his exacting dismembering science
we evolved tentacles to detect bs and flip the script
we, predator, predate you
fellow spirits, he dare not deadname us
for we are busy smirking, shrieking with belly-cramping laughter, casting spells
(he can’t stand it ‘cause he don’t get it--our defiance, noncompliance
watch out yall, all he knows is violence)
we are busy healing parched lands
mending, re-membering,
nourishing, restoring
what other states can water reorganize into on other worlds?
we’ll show you. join us
(img from denver zoo)