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UP FOR SLAUGHTER
“I think of my body, discolored and / crude, hospitable only to the / mouth it loves and the rhythm / that follows.”
Brittany Adames is a Dominican-American writer. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Vagabond City, Cosmonauts Avenue, Rust+Moth, TRACK//FOUR, and elsewhere. She attends Emerson College.
“I think of my body, discolored and / crude, hospitable only to the / mouth it loves and the rhythm / that follows.”