Scabies: a love poem

by Traci Lavois Thiebaud

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This is the summer we will all get scabies
Better than rabies
Better than babies
The four of us
This is the summer we will all get scabies
Blame it on sapphic love
Blame it on the one who doesn't shower
Blame it on the cat
Utility is written all over your face
I come here
This is where I come
You look so serious when you talk about the rash
Like you do when you talk about the war
And how everything is always different after a war
All the cunt hair was shaved in the massacre of our bodies
While we were ignorant we did not itch
Then google search this rash
These bumps
Suspicious lumps
No insurance
Home remedy
Sturdy
Built for this
Smile like a Swiss Army knife
To cut what burrows in the skin
The itch comes on stronger once you know you should be itchy
Web md says scabies are a sexually transmitted disease
And what's a girl to do ya know
I mean I got a body
And sometimes I rub it against other bodies
And sometimes all that rubbing can cause
Mites to burrow in your skin
I mean I got a body so it takes my body
And puts its babies in my body
And man I never asked for that ya know
I didn't consent
There are babies being born all the time did ya know
Some right now hatching under my skin
Some right this moment hatching under my skin
Eggs
Eggs
Eggs
Eggs
Flesh fresh eggs
Call your lover tell him clean the couch

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released November 10, 2017
Music with Stephanie Gonzalez

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