mal profeta is a public health advocate and holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University. They received the Fugue Poetry Prize, and their work appears in Aesthetica International Creative Writing Anthology and the University of Canberra International Creative Writing Anthology.

from long life hotel

by mal profeta


well, it finally happened

scientists concluded that the universe shouldn’t exist and i
masturbated with a carrot.
twin yolks three days in a row.


i let myself bleed in public, let the blood run down my leg the whole
train ride home and no one knew i was composing an ode
to how powerful i felt, how safe in my goriness, which i thought no one would want to touch. how i came, after the shame, to relish
the hot glide between my thighs.
so what if my pants were ruined.
People on couch
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