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Underground Queers and Other Weary Creatures By Ravenna Christie
BRAIN
‘ You feel like you ’ re a spy in disguise . You ’ re pretending to be a person , it ’ s a whole role .’ ~ Non-Binary , bisexual ( They / Them )
One thought is all it takes for you to be cast out . The thoughts fester until your brain infects itself . I ’ m in blackness . They see a man .
Where am I ? What is this place ?
I ’ m thinking of bad things … bad others … bad men … It ’ s mutilating my insides . Diseased flesh runs through my gut