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i think i think in shadow shifts until they see something through which they can blurt. ekphrasis as thoughts thudding through solid like steady beads of tapioca. Eye Candy is for suck, clack against teeth, maybe melt in the middle. periscope tongue looking always to rest. settling in at the movies.

Eye Candy:
on Jennifer's Body and

by EJ Kneifel

Movie still from Jennifer's Body. Needy stands in the shadows against a wall.

/ laurence anyways / i had to grimpe into life again / the horror of purported realism is seeing the same word mean something different / laurence / laurence / her chest / her chest / during intermission at the outdoor theatre show i told her that the narrativized inevitability of cishetereosexuality makes me want to die / at the top of the second act he flicked out a white sheet / he covered her body with his / his chest / i had to look up at the fireflies / i had to change tabs / laptop too hot on my chest / my chest / i was running / the green it was dark / my fear had an object / dark green of jennifer’s body / which is a ridiculous movie / but i used to honk for night deer on the highway / how to imagine yourself in an image wherein you do not exist / how to remember full bigness when what is there is cropped at the shoulder / white sheet dulling of shorthand / to be inside desire means that there is a threshold / which can be met or not met / cheap jump scare / the brakelights / i jumped / shadow long / tired legs loose at the roots / laptop too hot on my chest / my chest / i looked up / the fireflies were mosquitoes passing through spotlights / a threshold which could be met / i repeated the names for love / a whole building humming / pink light of a greenhouse / running / i was running / the green wasn’t dark yet / a whole block waved me down / to show me an owl / ancient face turning / pinkgreen bristle / wing of the world / of a chest 

/ laurence anyways / i had to grimpe into life again / the horror of purported realism is seeing the same word mean something different / laurence / laurence / her chest / her chest / during intermission at the outdoor theatre show i told her that the narrativized inevitability of cishetereosexuality makes me want to die / at the top of the second act he flicked out a white sheet / he covered her body with his / his chest / i had to look up at the fireflies / i had to change tabs / laptop too hot on my chest / my chest / i was running / the green it was dark / my fear had an object / dark green of jennifer’s body / which is a ridiculous movie / but i used to honk for night deer on the highway / how to imagine yourself in an image wherein you do not exist / how to remember full bigness when what is there is cropped at the shoulder / white sheet dulling of shorthand / to be inside desire means that there is a threshold / which can be met or not met / cheap jump scare / the brakelights / i jumped / shadow long / tired legs loose at the roots / laptop too hot on my chest / my chest / i looked up / the fireflies were mosquitoes passing through spotlights / a threshold which could be met / i repeated the names for love / a whole building humming / pink light of a greenhouse / running / i was running / the green wasn’t dark yet / a whole block waved me down / to show me an owl / ancient face turning / pinkgreen bristle / wing of the world / of a chest