Lucky Chaparro

Snatching the Mic

by: Lucky Chaparro

CW: Reclaiming a homophobic pejorative (censored) (That’s not you speaking. That’s the f*g in you.) —Dad

O Ganymede sweater from Barney’s on Seventh, LASIK, winged lashes, and teeth by Marc Jacobs, make me the judge of my old, naked father. My Keurig drips 4Loko in my morning cup; my mother doesn’t expect a call. My ass claps back like thunderslaps. Multiply me in your thousand eyes. Smile and rise for my national anthem: O f*g, beloved be thy porcelain smile, thy vows of self-erasure, the grace, the elegance, of thy bent knees.