Krysta Lee Frost is a mixed race Filipino American poet who halves her life between the Philippines and the United States. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, The Margins, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hobart, Nashville Review, and elsewhere.
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What A Pity You Were
you’re so sexy/sulking red/and ready
to beg/sweat and silt/spilling silk
until you’re sick/you’re so sexy
when i bring it/out of you
when i throw off/my working clothes
and use your hands/to dress me up
as a good man/god/you’re so sexy/stretched
like a smile/and smiling/wider for me
suspiciously/salacious/my symptomatic
senselessly incensed/asymptote
just simmer down/i’m sick of
sudden sullen/slumped/at attention
can you move/a little closer/can you follow
my finger/and follow/the cue
why don’t we play/fetch/my sycophant
my stray pet/move away before i retch
but remain/reachable/take a raincheck
remember recreation/replay/our game again
keep it/respectful/ejectable/when unplayable
my little cartridge/my unsatisfactory/factory defect
my free-for-all/gift with purchase
what a small price to pay/what a pity
you were/so sexy