Begging For It
I like being spread rough-moaned paid & happy & haunted all the flies on the walls of this house know— What I mean when I say from dust I come I mean my body has got a bottom & they have fucked it I am cunt & throat & I have been counting backwards since the internet made it public that I liked to fuck too since the christians went out of style & the feminists strung me up by my blxck clitoris To them, I'm never going to be a real womxn till I accept my codename: victim security code: BIG CHOP there is a bounty on my breast for all the bullshit I let slide I'm going to hell for being beautiful & liking it for not applying a razor to every tongue that ever slapped wind at me begging for it I must be
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Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural architect working at the intersection of language, spirit, and technology. A queer Afro-Creole visionary, they create cross-genre work spanning poetry, memoir, installation, and ritual that confronts carcerality, censorship, and grief. Author of A Map of My Want (2024), winner of the 2025 Midwest Book Award, and HoodWitch (2019), a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, their memoir A Body of Wild Light: The Fall and Rise of an American Poet is forthcoming 2027. Hicks is a 2025 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow.
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