Least Read Poems About Reading

read somewhere that alexander
pope was one of the most quoted in the
book of most quoted quotations;

but hardly anyone today can be arsed
to read his poems, and yet everybody today
loves a bloody good quote  

Drag thoughts
Thoughts drag

Drag story time
Reading books

Drag thoughtful
Pleasure in human flesh

Thoughtful drag
Lifts up my spirits

Just want to exist
In this hateful place

Not putting upon
What makes me be alive

Thoughts in drag
Reasoned and respectful

Why can’t they be one of us
When they give so much love

Not asking for anything special
Just to be realized as human
And not a freak of nature


The only thing they groom
Is...

To endure and not spill at all.
I abandoned myself like a patchwork.
And I peel the epidermis from me like pomegranate seeds.

I juggled once more.
A sort of wandering spectacle, my exit
A captive without parchment,
detain the scarf.

The persona, the jointed hollows, the array of molars?
Soon, on strike the steak
And I, a lady, a superior lady.
This is the ceramic femur.

What a billion embellishments.
They flay my palms and soles—
These were my fingers
My elbows, no, my elbows ache.
Yet...