I Didn't Know it was Me 'til I Stood Beside You and it Wasn't You
or I-didn't-know-I-was-gay-until-everything-else-was-so bright-white-stiff-and-straight
I want all of my friends
to know who you are
fell asleep passenger your car
woke up to a buzz near my head
she asked me where i was
my fuzziness fled
flew thru blue green night,
the sleep was nothing
it was light
my baby’s in the front side
before June didn’t know him at all
my boyfriend’s famous on the internet,
in real life he’s five feet tall
my baby keeps some secrets
my baby takes all my calls
my boyfriend has a boyfriend too,
my boyfriends got it all
dreamt he kept a yellow truck
in it my possessions, he kept them wrapped
as we drove they bled into the street
when we saw it,
we just laughed
40 miles is catharsis
played miles, said i have good taste
asked me about my parents
said it’s complicated cos I’m gay.
red light signaled to the right side
said ‘well good thing when you’re with me,
you’re straight’
About the Creator
Mal LS
MALLORY LEI-SMITH is a queer writer in Los Angeles, CA.
Moved by birds, she's had research on songbird populations in King County published by the Audubon Society. She is an Octavia E. Butler scholar at the Huntington Library of Research.
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