Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy
Questionnaire
Sarah Sarai
What if you don’t use body lotion?
Like choosing bedsheets of raw wool.
Like violating the truce hammered out
by kink and desire, a battle raged
since I came out then raced inside.
What if you are performative in bed.
It’s taken years to understand that word
and a tip into the century to use.
If only you applied yourself like you apply
eyeshadow misted tawny;
dewy as a simple soul. Or, if inclined,
a languid metallic smudged.
A shimmy shivering on sprung moss.
You don’t know until you know.
It takes it out of one, to become fortunate.
Is there anything better than skin?
Sarah Sarai
What if you don’t use body lotion?
Like choosing bedsheets of raw wool.
Like violating the truce hammered out
by kink and desire, a battle raged
since I came out then raced inside.
What if you are performative in bed.
It’s taken years to understand that word
and a tip into the century to use.
If only you applied yourself like you apply
eyeshadow misted tawny;
dewy as a simple soul. Or, if inclined,
a languid metallic smudged.
A shimmy shivering on sprung moss.
You don’t know until you know.
It takes it out of one, to become fortunate.
Is there anything better than skin?