Final Boy Ponders the Slash
“remember the tourniquet / your husband made you carry / out & across & around / the city / in case of emergency”
Stephen S. Mills (he/they) is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (2012) as well as A History of the Unmarried (2014) and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (2018) all from Sibling Rivalry Press. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, and others. Two of his books were placed on the Over the Rainbow List compiled yearly by the American Library Association. He is also the author of the plays Waiting for Manilow and Is That All There Is? He lives in New York City. Website: http://www.stephensmills.com/
“remember the tourniquet / your husband made you carry / out & across & around / the city / in case of emergency”