BLOODSPORTS

2022

18”x18”x30”

ceramic, iron oxide, steel, chain, quick links, soy wax candles (and their remnants), fire, poem, performance

Flesh is my least favorite chore

Debris gets drawn in too easily

i wish it could be Someone Else’s responsibility 

Stainless steel feels inhuman feels like

         me

Strip and search my body

Like a curiosity in a cabinet 

Your pupils open to prey

Make a spectacle of my

                  Intimacy

Penetrable peephole 

Reveals a refracted silhouette

A summation of skin

i feel myself

    slipping

Sinking into fiberglass

Falling out the faucet

Leaking is so cathartic

Inanimacy is so desirable

            So easy

i pretend like last year didn't happen

And next year ill try to forget today

Memory collects like dust

i despise the dinginess of antiquity 

          im dirty

Maybe ill be more myself 

If i evaporate

my favorite sport is blood

my favorite sport is water

Am i vulnerable enough yet?

Put the condom on

i can see the mildew forming on Your flesh

You haven't been cleaned in weeks

Forgetfulness is foreign to me

              i would make sure You sparkle

                                     If You didn't already smell like shit

Wax in water 

Rind rots away

Pressure washer abrasion 

Each minute worn down by friction

            Stuck in a cyclical suicide

Wet specimen sanctity 

Don't fucking tap the glass!!!! 

Aquatex anxiety

You never even

                        Look at me

Pantomime patina

Plaster on my body

Everyday

Same thing

  i just want it to be over with