by Rene Baek Goddard
The AC is out
and the sun gives us 92 in her good moods.
The red heat warning flag looms in the yard–
A bloody spectre.
Good Lord and Fuck It’s Hot and
They Don’t Care How They Do Us—
the walls whisper, sweating.
Sometimes this place is not 192 women
Sometimes this place is not 192 tough, sticky, Alabama-sun-toasted bodies. Sometimes this place is 1 organism, 192 cells
Endlessly merging
Endlessly dividing
Endlessly destroying each other
Our crimes exposed in the light of day–
The sun does not forgive.
Rene Baek Goddard is a U.S-born Korean socialist organizer, journalist and sex worker formerly incarcerated for charges related to the 2020 George Floyd Uprisings. She was referred to as an “amateur pornstar and domestic terrorist” by alt-right media (which she is very proud of). She was recently released from federal prison and lives in Chicago with her two cats. Her work can be found in Them, Truthout, Autostraddle, Sinister Wisdom, Xbiz, and the Arkansas Worker.