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The Mpreg Poem-1 – Aileen Zhao_Page_1

Lil Nas X posts a picture where he is flaunting what appears to be a pregnant belly. There is as always, Twitter discourse over this. I am not on Twitter. I think it’ s camp, to misuse the term. 2. For five years I do not feel the comings and goings of my own body. How it stretches, distorts, holds itself. There is a self inside me with no body at all, content to float, to pilot the flesh-suit from afar. 3. One of my friends loves animals, their babies especially. Fish eggs, little kitten fetuses frequent his art, small and frail and naked. Their eyes do not open, appear sleepy, appear raw, the umbilical cords ropey. And 4. Giving birth was the most painful experience of my life, my mother says. So bad, even, that she is constantly trying to find in me the right thing to say: God, why did you send me this plague, this terrible grief, what

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