Queer FatAll of the obese bodies mimic strange Animals that mimic strange animals. I A node in a simulacra of fat, a cartoonish Mushroom with doll eyes, budding up Optimistic until it collapses into pebbles Made of meat. The eyes roll into the skull, Flutter, and everything is oily porcelain. O, A matter of pork porking sex fluid around Rocks, and stones, and horrific trees. I Is about as distinct as a cell in cellulose Butter spread on a hairy thigh. The brain In the leg secretes its own fluid. The fluid Moves slimy with all of the blunt agility Of decomposing antelope guts, schizophrenic As a fanciful death coil producing a rare Music whimsically in a nocturnal luxury. All of the mimicry is strange and obese. All of the animals reflect each other's oil Sheen. Simulacra at the speed of capital pink Spewing the material of a skull cage. Opening To decay, to jizz confusion, to fat thinking, I Think. Mimicry and fat boils its cruel illusion. Aaron Apps is a PhD student in English Literature at Brown University. He also holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota. His first book of poetry Compos(t) Mentis came out from Blazevox [Books] in 2012, and his second book of hybrid-genre prose, Intersex, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2014. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in LIT, Washington Square Review, Verse, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Caliban, PANK, Caketrain, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. |