Chunks

Katie Gene Friedman

The truth of how I feel

about myself, if you must know,

is encapsulated in the chunks

of vomit I lapped off dick.

Because the only humiliation

greater than your throat rejecting a man,

is not making a man meet

his end. We all scream ourselves

into this world.

Katie Gene Friedman is a high school dropout and healthcare worker who enjoys musing on the indignities of having a body. Her nonfiction chapbook Foreign Body is out with Future Tense Books. She lives in Philadelphia and can be found on the internet @ValleyGirlLift.