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Commercial flash: Bill Cosby narrates to an
image
of a new boy moving into the neighborhood
“The way to a man’s heart is through
his stomach.”
Little Suzy makes him Jello, walks to the street
into a heard of girls bringing the new boy Jello
“Looks like it’s not a secret”
J-E-L-L-O
Fuck that elusive, iridescent, squirmy shit
Coming in different flavors, colors, and shapes
It may look and smell different,
But it’s all made up of the same old powder
shit
That liquefies with boiling water
And solidifies with time
To form a colorful transparency of barely solid
slime
Slime that is forced down my throat with a pill
of
compulsory heterosexuality ground up in the gelatin
A recipe to make me wiggle, make me jiggle, and
all
that passive positively sexist shit designed to
teach
me to want a man and spend my life trying to get
him
And I better start early because if I don’t
I may miss my
chance as he’s devoured by all the other
girls who’ve
been spoon fed for the same diet of competition,
jealousy,
and insecurity
Well fuck those cookie cutter definitions
My life won’t be shaped like that
I refuse the poison no matter how sweet it tastes
or
how smooth and easy it is
I’ll take that boiling water and use it
to melt away
he barriers to the dreams and futures I chose.
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