LOVE SONNET –– :WOMEN_WRESTLING:
After Jamie Paige
by Avery Lake
I’m loud in your face like a pop-up,
smirking in a cardboard cutout crown,
I climb the tower –– it’s you on top up
there. The rush is giddy when you throw me down.
Yank my tooth out for a faggot keepsake. I know I love you when you leave me bleeding. I try to deck you out and my bones break –– it slips away –– my gestures lose their meaning.
I’m blissed-out, seeping, babbling, lush with bruises. I start the fights; it’s me who always loses.
