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To Be a Body

By H. MELT  |  31 AUG 2016

To Be a Body

to be a body
not come out
your body

to be a body
not be in
your body

to be a body
to be a no
body

to be a body
no body
sees

to be a body
no body
believes.

H. Melt is a poet and artist whose work proudly documents Chicago's queer and trans communities. Their writing has been published many places including In These Times, Lambda Literary, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of SIRvival in the Second City and the forthcoming The Plural, The Blurring.

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