Rosebud Ben-Oni

For Carolina Ebeid We enrolled at barbizon Knowing full well We’d never look like What was promised Cue carol of the bells Cue a demo on the casio And the security of two-way Escalators setting the speed Those early mornings In our mall school The store’s silver grills Some mannequins left Half-clothed We’d taunt them With our imagined summers In london paris rome We weren’t please and thank you Walking with books on our heads No we were going to devastate Greek shipping heirs At every port of call Yet when our bus broke down And we trudged the shoulder Of highways Single file Dodging cigarette butt and horn We shook off those mornings Studied Their defenseless Indifference The blinding surface The quality of electric Without being alive We knew that there In only hot pants The ideal form Plastic Most would take a bullet for While at 16 We were already trash-talking Our prayers never went beyond The second floor Light-years away From the last word That distant somewhere Where a boat loses course The north star forsaking Its name to another

After BIGBANG’s “Fantastic Baby” Matarose never comes home She’s hungry like a wolf She’s rosa de mota in lacroix all the girls hail on queens boulevard All the views she’s killed in the name of iman & yasmin le bon Mata’s quite meta Mata means kill Rose a curve from the real meat of it all She’s part my little pony into bronies she has loved & loved not by astro-pony compatibility chart She’s the queerest part of me What’s left after the clubs close & has yet to go home she never goes when she writes I always write in bed just woofed down a 3 musketeers                          mata’s on a mission which is to say I’m my most           queer my most mata- rose when she & I don’t need all the girls in the yard don’t need all the girls in the yard by which I mean the one who’s not the one whose blocked texts & torn up wish you wells flicker still      That riddle get you killed kind of a woman for whom matarose almost cut off a foot Went to the end of twobuck ghosting rails My man is a little afraid of mata            he accepts her tho Lets her come & go because I stay I am always with him because mata just wants every 7 train to dissolve into g-dragon sound wants you to howl boom mata mata boom mata mata wow g-mata dragonrose The most pony of them all g-mata 7 dragontrainrose Don’t wait up Never last stop never comes boom mata mata boom mata mata home