Vanquished
your pale skin beneath me
veins visible
feint scrawled blue lines
written in a rush
told you I was colonising
you
my form of resistance:
sleeping with white women
you laughed
grinding harder against
me I was
decolonising my tongue
against your cunt
resisting occupation
by pushing inside you
created countries
divided up your body
arbitrarily
13 days later
you loved me enough
to invade
crossed continents
occupied my bed
no treaties
just an unravelling
your troops threading
across me
you and
clenched fingers
blue grey eyes
dammed water
as you whispered
the sacredness of our
fucking
I gathered your wants
twisted those vines
round an aorta
pumping against your mouth
my heart thrummed
against your lips
you fucked me
in ways I couldn’t fuck you
fucking is a violence
a form of violence
we’re all versed in
my violence was
a hammering fist
in mouth
in ears
no
pummelled into
a mess so enormous
you fled
you weren’t gone
until there were
17,000 air kilometres
between us
an autonomous withdrawal
me pleading for you
to rebuild your settlements
that was your triumph:
I was Fiji
inviting your invasion
you weren’t laughing anymore
cold war skypewatsappfacetime
we have to speak in skin
I can’t reach you
with ones and zeros
spinning grim
come back
you and your army
of fabrication
you and your
cock and bull troops
come back
these peace talks
are useless
transparent time killing
as you seek another outpost
to plant your flag
I’m a nation
at war with itself
tearing cells from
particles
from meat
matter dissolving in nuclear
explosions
this is on you
you pulled out
too soon
all you ever cared about
was the incursion
once the capture
was complete
you instigated your retreat
…