I want to see Jean-Luc Picard get sweaty
with a Ferengi. I wanna go to SPACE
but not as we know it. Pass by
that final frontier, get cheeky with a Vulcan
and make Pon Farr in front of Quark’s bar,
eat lokar beans – post-coitus – remind myself I’m stardust, bitch. Pick a fight
with a Klingon, just so we can fuck
it better. Get fucking meta. Have a rave
on the holodeck and dick down
next to the warp core. Hardcore, soft
porn. And speaking of laws unto their self,
Do you think Janeway would strap me? Oh,
Kathryn, my Captain, I’m locked in
your quadrant. And no, Neelix,
you can’t watch.
George Violet Parker is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, Diversity Awards, and Space Crone Prize-nominated queer disabled writer and facilitator. Publications include Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust), Twisted Roots (Reconnecting Rainbows), Gynandromorph (Written Off), and ACE-funded anthology eff-able (fourteen poems). Other publications include Mslexia, Financial Times, Arachne Press, and Bi+ Lines. They were selected for an ACE-funded place on TLC’s Chapter and Verse Mentoring scheme, and in 2022 received DYCP to write their second novel.