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Agitation
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299 The Muse Talks Back Agitation: frida says (a translation) Alessandra Lynch i will cut off all my hair & use each strand as another bar of music each bird an unbridled note i want the dark birds they’re more easily read they can use my hair as nesting threads you have said you won’t love me without my woman-power—what protects—my veil i say: my burden—what strangles—dead tendrils of pleasing pleasing appeasing follicles which have no sheen or motion i sit on my hellish yellow chair without my hair-shirt in my man’s suit & small man’s shoes my legs wide like a man’s smoke issuing from fingers immaterial green bird in my lap ...