Dub Number Four

Written By Sylas St. Vincent

i wish i was a cloven hooved animal

i wish there was a dietary restriction-

one that prevents people from

eating my flesh

if there was a chemical that could make me

glow at night-

when the cicadas are ringing

when the wind is singing

when the moonlight trickles

down the trees

casting shadows against the forest floor-

i would take it

with the thinnest needle

then poke it in my skin

and shoot it into my blood

Sylas St. Vincent

Sylas St. Vincent (he/him/his) is multi-hyphenated artist based in Toronto/Tkaronto and New York City. His art is focused on sexuality, coming of age, and auto-ethnography as a proud member of the global majority. Through poems, essays, and fiction, he examines the mundane and humanistic parts of this post-colonial world. 

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