Brook is stiletto-less in Splash

threw them at the drag queen she is      loose asshole!   and

                fuck you!             she is sobbing my stairwell 3 AM

box of goldfish crumbs on a Chanel dress for gay

rights and                               all y’all want is your rights        rolling and sexing she is

the breakbeat                  Jesus Christ!       …I need gum…          orange juice

                                                turns up my bass feeling something she

                                can’t see, God, just to know it   is

possible, her dub-step God, touches her

                                moves her, in gentle ways the priest

                                                never did, but

Brook needs popping-cracking-molars,

5HTP, either sweat pants or Gucci

pearls or candy glow sticks and body paint like

the doctor’s sharpie lines hash - -

 - - marks she is breast-less and she is

mastectomy, 19 now

Double D-less    one in three

-million                

I was the I.V. the hairnet

safety-net wig brothermotherfather

but she is therenothere

and she is gay rights and goldfish and gone

Bio: Robert Hudson graduated from Louisiana State University May 2011 with a degree in Creative Writing. He was born in Austin and raised in Dallas; the Texan culture and landscape maintain a central focus in many of his works. He is the son of a lawyer and an English major, and will be attending law school in the fall with a focus in human and LGBTQ rights. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the LSU Honors College literary organization Fusion and assistant poetry editor of the undergraduate publication Delta.