Diana Manesi
Writing is bleeding internally I never get to control love artesian well with drunken words
Fleeting and flowing on the couch it’s 37 degrees 7.20 hours since recession
My fingers are metal coins {I paid 2.50 euros for cabbage today}
5.20 times 7.20 hours
academics take pleasure in killing orcs
If a book is not original, if I am not original
centuries of orcs to kill and unsettle
One euro glued on my fingers forever, for ever and ever, for every time I untuck my breasts
and smell the skin in between baby powder, sweaty and tired
Two euros unlovable glues come and go
Three euros medusa gloves Cixous let’s me have apple-pie
I love apples I loved her Adam apple with a smear of testicles sauce on top
Writing costs 3 euros plus kitchen gloves plus a room minus my desire for coins
to change hands, hunt down skills, sorrow pure
I will always be poor no matter what
it’s ok, there’s nothing else to do than pour it in
Author Bio: Diana Manesi recently published her book “One and whole: One bite” by Queer Ink Publications: http://queerink.gr/en/publication/diana-manesi/. She has also written poems for online poetry magazines- a glimpse of hybrid narrative- and participated at various poetry workshops and readings in Athens and London. She recently completed her thesis in social anthropology with a focus on queer and lesbian feminism in Greece. She has taught anthropology and feminist theory at Goldsmiths College in London and currently works at an Athens-based Feminist Centre for the rights of all women.
