In a Marriott Bed I try to Calculate the Constant Capital of my Pussy
The labor of use value: concrete. The labor of love: bounded. The labor of skill: adjudication. The labor of intellect: atomic. The labor of conception: deficit. The labor of reproduction: departure. The labor of compliance: imposter. The labor of tradition: premature. The labor of comfort: fragmented. The labor of god: negligible. The labor of innocence: deletion. The labor of daughters: threshold. The labor of expectation: lapsed. The labor of rehearsal: passage. The labor of spring: permission. The labor of summer: dilemma. The labor of soil: escape. The labor of midnight: background. The labor of negation: borrowed. The labor of gravity: feathered. The labor of omens: resignation. The labor of vision: facade. The labor of yes: the labor of yes: the yes of the labor of the yes, the yes
/for the nights alone
I feast upon the decadence of oysters & no
Stephanie Kaylor is a PhD student in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. They are Reviews Editor at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. She curates primary sources related to US criminality and organizing for the Sex Workers’ Archival Project.