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gunnar tchida
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​Femme Curtain
From time to time I mash my ponytail into my face
and sob into the soft mass


I consider the word dignity
To determine if I still have it
And no, I don’t exactly have it

If a thing is happening then it hurts

I toured the Susan B. Anthony house 
In orthopedic shoes
I woke up chewing on dirt
I underwent another poem

I sat at a table by a busy city street
And told the men who called me slut
To go fuck their dads
Their rage was so complete
That finally I could relax
Itch Corridor
I am alone in my tent
Which means
I am naked from the waist down
And wearing a long-sleeved
Underarmour shirt soaked in DEET
The shirt was advertised as 
Quick-drying, scent-blocking, and quiet
I stretch out on my stomach
Reading a Hungarian novel
With an Ensor painting on the cover
Thinking, if this was a Matriarchy
I would just walk around like this
All the time

My whole mouth is an angry bite
My red bumped legs are fast hot itch sticks
Bruises emerge around scratch channels

I am a human being in hot slow motion

When your partners try to distract you
Out of jealousy
Or boring control issues
It’s best to write your poem anyway

A boyfriend called me a bitch once
And I made a list of what might be a cool kind of bitch to be

A bird bitch
A bulldog bitch
A long migration of mule deer bitch
Wyoming corridor bitch
Wildlife biologist bitch
Rainbow trout bitch
An Estimation of Streamflow Characteristics for Charles M. Russell National Wildlife 
Refuge, Northeastern Montana bitch
Montana Bighorn Sheep Conservation Strategy bitch
Bothered ambition bitch
Orthopedic shoe bitch
Cold bath bitch
Horseback bitch
Leather reigns bitch
Cold truck bitch
Pink camo bitch
Permit to carry bitch
Soft hair bitch
Gun lessons bitch
Gunmetal bitch
Field khaki bitch
Foliage bitch
Desert tan bitch
Night bitch
Cherrywood bitch
Lakeshore sand bitch
Blue pine bitch
Rocky Mountain bitch

You can stack small betrayals
Like poker chips
That’s really the end 
Of that

GUNNAR TCHIDA is an artist currently studying Wildlife Biology in Montana. In 2015, she founded the organization Cowgirls for Voluntary Human Extinction. Her dog is named Luna and her motorcycle is named Pony II. 
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