Matt Broomfield | kisses rough through the skimask but | Poets Resist

Matt Broomfield is a poet, journalist and activist currently living and working in Rojava, in solidarity with the socialist-feminist revolution here. Since travelling to Rojava, he has published poetry and essays in Rise Up Review, Argot Magazine, Poets Read The News, Red Pepper and It’s Going Down.

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Edited by Kanika Lawton
June 18, 2019

Matt Broomfield

kisses rough through the skimask but

kisses rough through the skimask but if the boy doesn’t want me to see his face the boy doesn’t want me to see his face anyway we know one another obscurely, in spite of our fears if i make him moan in the right way he will consent to drive me to the coast each wrong turn a mock execution nonetheless, it is possible to sleep subway switching trainers like we’re not cuffed already in so many ways crossing over all your borders like it’s nothing, like a dance dead drops in Balkan squats no way not here, yet here we are snorting state-backed courage from spent passports in the airport loos all these simcards switched and swallowed all these checkpoints sashayed through all this time we thought we were nervous but we weren’t nearly nervous enough wicked to move so careless, maybe but how else should one care bugged out crossing borders as I can cross them, and so I cross