I don’t mind you’ve put on a little actually
I’m attracted to boys do we deserve
a snack tonight? what you eat
really isn’t that healthy we should
exercise more I can police your food
if you’d like you shouldn’t
wear a shirt that tight around your we need
to eat better you’re ordering that again?
if you put that much on your popcorn,
you’ll die of a heart attack is this
what you want?
Matthew Stepanic is a queer writer who lives and works on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton. He is a co-author of Project Compass (Monto Books, 2017) and the author of Relying on that Body (Glass Buffalo, 2018). His work has appeared in Queer Little Nightmares (Arsenal Pulp, 2022), CV2, and others. He hosts VERS/E, a queer poetry open mic the first Wednesday of every month at Felice Cafe.
