Here are some of my favorite poems by Janani Balasubramanian
You can read more of their work on this website: Queer Dark Energy
You can listen/watch some of their performances within their artist dou, Dark Matter, here: Dark Matter YouTube channel
I encourage all of the "stalking" of their work.
gravity, the haiku
the atoms
in the universe
get lonely
rumpelstilskin
certain lies keep the world oiled
handfuls at a time:
babies come from the sky.
abraham lincoln abolished slavery.
nuclear disarmament.
cage-free eggs.
i will certainly give you my first-born child.
at the end of the world we’ll all sip weak tea
and play truth or truth
and laugh to stitches about the time
you ripped yourself in half
and we called it a day
and a happy ending.
Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a neoliberal lamb
whose fleece was white as Edward Snowden
and everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to institute NSA surveillance.
He followed her to school one day.
That was against the rule.
They charged Mary with treason.
jack and jill
jack and jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
jack fell down and broke his crown
and jill said fuck this
and became a lesbian separatist
i come with all of that
i come like this
wounded tired wound tight
i’ve been a tired woman
and a tired boy
i’ve eaten myself alive
i come with my own blood
other people’s salt
and two old and mean eyes
fuck me like
i come with all of that
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