The Fissured Tongue Series
Large Soft Woman Words Wrung from Paintings of the Europe and America 1600-1900 Galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Becca Barniskis
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rosebud absent-minded sky cleaning clouds
icy greedy anemic ohfuck whatnow
shopping bored sweeping bored keeping/kept
bored this again clever confident titties
turned on smart slit bemused thanks
polished minty twee faraway bored
top heavy bent cunt private wily
baby moody baby crying baby
ignore whatever disheveled peony horrorstory
wily busy okayokay waiting relief
done thanks proud weary choked
alone okayokayokay horny trapped raped
fed fed-up bare cold bare
gone blood bare ache fuckthis
strength proper pink cuddle nowwhat
resigned chilblains concerned satisfied sever
fight nurse clean vagina dustdust
beleaguered hunchback ivory marble veined
mottled smooth self mirror property
mine queen mine ladylike it’s-all-mine
Becca Barniskis
[see the formatted image version and the rest of the poems in this series]
rosebud absent-minded sky cleaning clouds
icy greedy anemic ohfuck whatnow
shopping bored sweeping bored keeping/kept
bored this again clever confident titties
turned on smart slit bemused thanks
polished minty twee faraway bored
top heavy bent cunt private wily
baby moody baby crying baby
ignore whatever disheveled peony horrorstory
wily busy okayokay waiting relief
done thanks proud weary choked
alone okayokayokay horny trapped raped
fed fed-up bare cold bare
gone blood bare ache fuckthis
strength proper pink cuddle nowwhat
resigned chilblains concerned satisfied sever
fight nurse clean vagina dustdust
beleaguered hunchback ivory marble veined
mottled smooth self mirror property
mine queen mine ladylike it’s-all-mine
