pageant horrorlesque
 
here we are – your bodacious queens – we finger the raw underside of our skin frocks – we display our anatomies – carved jack o lantern smiles between our ears – our guts we hold like bouquets of roses – rib chink crowns for the win – we are pinned into your psychofantasia – spinning with carcasses duct taped to our torsos – our talents graded on how far our tongues will fall – i am your ten pointer & i feel so special – as i lick the ground where your feet rot – but this is love – hot heavy white trash love buried in the nexus of grave stones


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GET WEIRD
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in this sweatsex messbox the wild are unveiled – we shed our human skins replace our eyes with the moon – tonight i’m feeling extraterrestrial – my body hums with figures in motion – they are beautiful abominations & i’m succumbing to their whim – being rolled onto my toes tongue bobbing throat to throat – i’m being handled by skin fingers & claws & transparent mittens – i’m giving in my legs – my thighs consumed in irreverent motions – in this euphoria i become one monstrous body housing thousands of souls – an upturned corpse mouthing O O

​Courtney Leigh is The Bowhunter of White Stag Publishing. She is the author of the chapbook, "the unrequited <3<3 of red riding hood & her lycan lover" (Dancing Girl Press, 2016).