“The B Job”: Bloody Fucking Hell (Excerpt)

Published by Lambda Literary 2010

Mundane routine

 

sharpens its blade

en la madrugada.

I hear the swiping sound
of steel on steel

Louder than toilet water
dripping on tile.

When she laid next to me
it didn’t keep me awake
like now.

Her calming breath drowned out the noise
the threat
that office work makes

before you punch in at 9 in the morning.

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“Bloody Fucking Hell” by Vanessa Libertad Garcia is a collection of poetry and essays that chronicle the splendor, torture, and confusion she experienced by a lesbian falling in love with various ” straight” women. The book takes an in-depth look at these intimate, rather distinct, relationships and explores where feminine identity, classifications of love, and roles in friendship blur in soul splitting ways.

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