GLOW | QUEER POETRY FEATURE: FRANNY CHOI

​Below, you will find 2 hard-hitting poems from Franny Choi!

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BEG

a man barges through the screen
to hook his fingers in my mouth.

i’m a fish market. i’m flattening into the bed.
rolled out. cooking off the rotten bits.

his boot heel’s a fork in my tongue.
i’m dimpled. gilled. asking for a god

who wears bones slick with pity.
asking to be bent, taken by firelight.

smelt from iron. pierced through with spokes.
a wheel for a head. a garage for a mother.

i want to ask the ones who crave a soft thing to tie up
if they think of ham, wake up covered in glaze

and lick their own shoulders,
scald their tongues on their cunts.

i’m a skillet overflowing sticky
til the bourbon burns off.

i’m the menace. i’m the menace.
i’m the mother of stink.

question: how does a ruined girl yield
the way a knight yields? whose pipeline am i blowing

up, exactly? if you ask a man to drink
from your faucet, do you become him?

i pull my man atop me and ask to be buried in brick
but beggars can’t be shepherds. he’s a reverse cowboy.

a slinging zookeeper. i’m the beast
rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.

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@FANNYCHOIR

Tweets sent to the author, processed through Google Translate into multiple languages, then back to English.

Mrs. Great Anime Pornography, the fruit of the field.
To date Klansman vagina. Good sister to the Saddle.
May ur shit like people and Hello Kitty.
I have one side of the oil pan, gookess.

If people will not buy a song, must be because of patriarchy.
I feel bad there arent u Whiteys where I was to go to China.
A person of God (fan) or flat face fetus can not be canceled
by the commitment to eating comfort women.

I’m going to be all Asian woman is an object of sex.
I my eyes, slope of women when abolition her throat
bukkake down my cock, retains its symbol. LOL!
This bitch is a full stop. In that sense,

the armor “cracks.” The only problem is getting
uppity, filthy immigrant girl. Do not like it?
I go back to my mudhole. Lazy fatties first
and only faggots existence. Whitey

will no longer live in institutions for the attack.
Family from some Asian process you are deported.
It is true that the White anger and crematoria front cover
hundreds of miles. Be careful about running off for us.

Each male is not shown. Only white hetero.
This is nothing. Cultural differences
was a mistake. How crazy can not find her. Will be very pleased.
lol parody, written, or oil, to rage.

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Franny Choi is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, the Poetry Review, Indiana Review, and others. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, a Project VOICE teaching artist, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.