how many queers does it take to ____?

a corn dog hovers in the hallway 
barking all night. i stroke my finger
across the golden surface.
i tell the animal to hush hush.
one day, there will be a plate 
to catch all the birds as they fall. 
chicken nuggets are made from 
all the pieces of the bird. 
most feathers taste like sage. 
i meant to ask you a question 
about a hole growing in the closet.
purple & swelling. a tunnel 
through the mountain. each day 
it asks me to come inside.
i am curling up in the head 
of a needle & never coming back.
we all have to eat something.
i take a handful of grass
& then another & another
to stuff myself. i want to be
a good teddy bear for whatever
the next life holds. one theory 
amoung witches is:
if you were a female in your last life 
& a male in the next 
sometimes energy carries over.
this is how you get a gay man.
how many queers does it take
to microwave a tulip? 
we are all standing around
the radioactive bond fire. 
the dogs are with us 
in their hunger & their wanting.
have you ever seen a man
beg for purple? we smear each other
all over the green backdrop.
in the forest, the steepness 
asks all the questions.
trees clutch rocks. i clutch 
everything i have forgotten 
to tell you. how will we live
in a world without air mattresses? 
soon enough it will all leak out.
i cut a row of gills. i plunged 
my head into the bath tub. pink is coming
very very soon. after that
we will have all red. the sun 
round & red 
& cherry cough syrup flavored.
the burning throat 
of tonight is blinking 
on & off. where are your shadows?
what are they doing without you?
i whistle. mine doesn't come back.
he must be doing the god's bidding.
do you trust your own mitosis?
i do not. i'm still hunting
a clone of myself. he sleep
in the tiny backyard.
i feed him corn dogs 
& blue water ice to try & 
make him different from me.
his face though-- his face is
the same as mine.