Jennessa Hester
the boys we pray for twice at night
girls like us know
that you can recognize a boot
by feeling for the grooves
on your boyfriend’s neck
that glor-uh! glor-uh! sounds no different
when a bullet screams it into the red
silence of the supper time table
that in this place
the quick can learn but one thing from the dead:
how to die like a re-yuhl man
little & lonely
in a blaze of
mourning
that you can recognize a boot
by feeling for the grooves
on your boyfriend’s neck
that glor-uh! glor-uh! sounds no different
when a bullet screams it into the red
silence of the supper time table
that in this place
the quick can learn but one thing from the dead:
how to die like a re-yuhl man
little & lonely
in a blaze of
mourning
Biography
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Jennessa Hester (she/her) is a transgender artist and scholar working out of Lubbock, Texas. She serves as a managing editor for the Iron Horse Literary Review and has previously worked in a variety of programs designed to bring literature, poetry, and international cinema to local communities. You can find her on Twitter @cherrypoppunk.
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