Just Another Drive-By Shooting

The Maenad

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Orange car, black bumper,

plastic bodied and made of rubber

like an old ford focus or Kia

a Kit car looking believer

rims blacked out or absent completely

violence and speed

No meaning, just loud

Civilization’s anxieties

It’s just another drive-by shooting

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The Maenad (She/Hers) Transgender Goddess, an activist, artist, poet, publisher, sex worker, and author of creative non-fiction, erotica, fantasy, and science fiction.

Her work has appeared @corporealitmag @engendered @gutslutpress @fahmidanjournal @redplanetmag @wickedgayways @365tomorrows, within the Gongfarmer’s Almanac and on Madwomen in the Attic.

Her first chapbook, a work of trans erotic liberation, the Ishtar Cycle, is available from @lupercaliapress

Find her @dreaminggynoid on Twitter and @scarlet_maenadum on IG