Darling Fitch

Midwest

Waist deep in America Overdrawn on gasoline and 
Chinese takeout  
We roll downhill and 
Wait for the floodwaters to carry us back up again 
We’ve remortgaged our lives 
And we’ll be dead before the balance comes due 
These moldy walls 
Don’t need to be rebuilt  
With bleach in every bottle 
This country will never come clean   
 
My unwashed hair a pipeline from this to that 
My eyes a cash register: no sale 
My heart a finished basement 
No sunshine but I spent a lot on it  
 
And all the shirtless boys I’ll never meet 
So serious and discreetly savage 
Broken by technology and spitting up their pearly teeth  
Down shipping corridors and out to an imagined coast 
Set their cruise control for reckless endangerment  
Careening knowingly  
Into the thick of it 
While I just pass on through


Darling Fitch is an American-born, Berlin-based writer, musician and performance artist. Their performance work has appeared in festivals internationally, including the Dixon Place HOT! Fest, the Edinburgh Fringe and the Month of Performance Art-Berlin. Fitch holds a merit award in fiction writing from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Recent poetry publications include Slanted HouseAnti-Heroin ChicBerlin Art Prizeand Transnational Queer Underground (TQU). In April 2018, Fitch finished the three-year durational multimedia project A Stranger Sound, an auto-ethnographic narrative of gender transition and community. They are currently touring Revelations: A Hopeful Harsh Noise Poetry Pop Opera About the End of the World and Our Place in It

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