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A Queerification
Regie Cabico’s work appears in more than thirty anthologies
including The Spoken Word Revolution (Sourcebooks,
2003); Chorus & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
(Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); and Aloud: Voices from the
Regie Cabico Nuyorican Poets Café (Henry Holt and Company, 1994). He is
the coeditor of Flicker & Spark: A Contemporary Anthology
of Queer Poetry and Spoken Word (Lowbrow Press, 2013),
—for Creativity and Crisis at the National Mall which was nominated for a 2014 Lambda Literary Award.

About Regie Cabico>

queer me
shift me Occasion
transgress me
LGBTQ Pride Month
tell my students i’m gay
tell chick fil a i’m queer
Themes
tell the new york times i’m straight
tell the mail man i’m a lesbian Gender
tell american airlines Identity
i don’t know what my gender is LGBTQ

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elbow to forearm in the dark
humor me queerly
fill me with laughter Subscribe
make me high with queer gas
decompress me from centuries of spanish inquisition
& self-righteous judgment
like the blood my blood
that has mixed w/ the colonizer
& the colonized
in the extinct & instinct to love
bust memories of water & heat
& hot & breath
beating skin on skin fluttering
bruise me into vapors
bleed me into air
fly me over sub-saharan africa & asia & antarctica
explode me from the closet of my fears
graffiti me out of doubt
bend me like bamboo
propose to me
divorce me
divide me into your spirit 2 spirit half spirit
& shadow me w/ fluttering tongues
& caresses beyond head
heart chakras
fist smashing djembes
between my hesitations
haiku me into 17 bursts of blossoms & cold saki
de-ethnicize me
de-clothe me
de-gender me in brassieres
& prosthetic genitalias
burn me on a brazier
wearing a brassiere
in bitch braggadocio soprano bass
magnificat me in vespers
of hallelujah & amen
libate me in halos
heal me in halls of femmy troubadors
announcing my hiv status
or your status
i am not afraid to love you
implant dialects as if they were lilacs
in my ear
medicate me with a lick & a like
i am not afraid to love you
so demand me
reclaim me
queerify me

Copyright © 2014 by Regie Cabico. Reprinted from Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database.

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