{"id":2264,"date":"2024-02-11T19:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:09:18","slug":"poetry-by-bunny-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Bunny Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Impossible D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>for jules<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I suffer at your hands<\/p>\n<p>and their absence. I think or dream often<\/p>\n<p>of opening&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; my sternum, chronically<\/p>\n<p>flushed like a little v of your skin, unzippered.<\/p>\n<p>I touch your chin, with my paraphilia,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry for that, I just have a kink<\/p>\n<p>for the beams of light rooted in your scalp,<\/p>\n<p>and for the sounds I might make rooted<\/p>\n<p>in your backyard, your backyard is my kink<\/p>\n<p>or being buried, and also everything.<\/p>\n<p>really, I am just a dog, buzzing with delight<\/p>\n<p>until the death of my vibe, until I realize<\/p>\n<p>it is my own hand buried between my legs<\/p>\n<p>and I can\u2019t bring myself to beg you<\/p>\n<p>to kill me in the ways I want, and I do.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Bunny\/Teddy Morris is an MFA candidate in poetry at LSU. He is a trans\/queer multimedia artist born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Its work revolves around disability, gender, and the erotic interactions between pain and pleasure. His recent work can be found in <em>SELFFUCK Magazine, Lavender Lime Literary,<\/em> and <em>Anti-Heroin Chic<\/em>. If you\u2019re interested in reading about sex work and fish, check out his chapbook <em>A Performance of My Ecstasy<\/em> (Gap Riot Press, 2020). His other work can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnymorris.wixsite.com\/poetry\">https:\/\/bunnymorris.wixsite.com\/poetry<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instagram: @straw_buni<br>Twitter: @bunzmorris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suffer at your hands \/ and their absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}