• The First Thing You Ever Said to Me
• August 13
• the first thing
• you ever said to me
• was, of your girlfriend,
• “don’t let her intimidate you”
• it’s getting harder now
• to persuade myself
• i’m worthless to other women
• but i can still do it
• if i ignore the way we stood hip to hip
• at the pool table
• read aloud from leather zines
• together in the Archives
• joked about how uncomfortable
• that sex scene was
• in the Akerman flick
• it was my freshman year
• and i got beaten up
• at the lesbian bar
• for looking like a girl