{"id":73327,"date":"2026-02-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/?p=73327"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:05:39","slug":"wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons-wagons\/","title":{"rendered":"WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sixty-Lit-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64466\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sixty-Lit-Logo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sixty-Lit-Logo-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(AmeriKKKa)<br><br>Good morning hero:  good morning pure dollar bill:  good morning blonde american pussy:  good morning pocket casino:  good morning bullet shrapnel rash:  good morning rage tear flags:  good morning undocumented field hands:  good morning mothers weeping: good morning poet tweaking:  good morning teargas screams: good morning slave patrol dreams:  good morning hung hustlers:  good morning crushed Percocet pills:  good morning sacred black femmequeen:  good morning bones beneath our bloody feet:  good morning fire bombed police station:  good morning glorious sniper rifle:  good morning white mold berries:  good morning silverfish poverty:  good morning concentration camp infant prisoners:  good morning gonorrhea cumyolk:  good morning christofascist collapse:  good morning pulsing lamprey nest:  good morning blue heron shrouded in river mist:   good morning wings beating towards <br>the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\">(Philadelphia, PA)<br><br>Writing at this moment feels incredibly shocking.  Shocking because what is happening right now can barely be described properly outside of unimaginable horror.  Even the cold documentations seem to birth new forms of terror and despair.  The spines of starving children in Gaza ripping out of their ashen skin with every dying breath do all the screaming for them that their vocal cords cannot.  The concentration camps in our country openly recruiting gestapo officers with starting salaries in the six figures.  People are being kidnapped off the streets, ripped from their homes, and sent to torture chambers.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The morning is an execution.  The stars a mass grave.  How many will flee across borders to escape this MAGA parade?  How many of us will be left behind?  How many more times will we hear the phrase 'for one of ours all of yours'?  And how much of our souls will be destroyed in the unfolding birth of their glorious blue chip hell? <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<br>WAGONS!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The masked fascists flaunt their toys:  flares, flags, grenades, chemical weapons, sonic wave guns, riot shields, tinted windows, aryan ink, black drones, canine robots, tasers, broken teeth, smoke bombs, batons, bullets, bullhorns, barbed wire.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<br>WAGONS! WAGONS!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The zombie regime recites the pledge of annexation.&nbsp; The zombie secretaries pray to the fathers of eugenics.&nbsp; The zombie senators tell us to die peacefully.&nbsp; The zombie pigs snort mountains of cocaine.&nbsp; The zombie newscaster says there are two sides.&nbsp; The zombie socialite sucks zombie cock.&nbsp; The zombie influencer can&#8217;t be bothered.&nbsp; The zombie baker bakes a monster cake.&nbsp; The zombie university only teaches supply and demand.&nbsp; The zombie ambassador falls asleep at the podium.&nbsp; The zombie state department purges all trannies and queers.&nbsp; The zombie mayor takes the bribe.&nbsp; The zombie art institutions respectfully rejects your application.&nbsp; The zombie megachurch prays for&nbsp;healing of the zombie nation.&nbsp; And the zombie president drools for the cameras.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">This administration is killing us.  Hunting us.  Erasing us.  They won't stop until we are all gone.  Until they bleed, what are we even fucking doing? Until every single one of their wagons burns none of this ends.  Until we gather behind massive collective care and resistance, these wagons will continue to amass their trails of repression, expulsion, captivity, and death. There is no longer any debate over hyperbole or hysteria or fear-mongering over their desire for a new era of Manifest Destiny.  The wagons are here. <br>NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO FUCKING DO ABOUT IT?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\">Holy Mother Miss Major Griffin-Gracy ascended into her final transition on October 13th, 2025.  Born in 1946 and raised on the south side of Chicago, Miss Major rioted at Stonewall, became a prison abolitionist alongside political prisoners in Attica, organized care networks for those dying of AIDS, developed drop-in services for trans sex workers, and built a legacy of love and nourishment for black trans communities across this country.<br>\tMiss Major details in a recorded conversation for the New York City Trans Oral History Project how we as transgender people have been criminalized throughout history.  She describes Chicago pigs waiting for the children to pump across 22nd and Cermak in their Lord &amp; Taylor furs and New York pigs who sent the gurls to prison for carrying condoms in their purses. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">\"Actually [growing] to be an older person without a record, or fingerprints, or abuse from the police. And being handcuffed and having your wrists shoved behind your back and bumping your head as they put you into the back of a patrol car. Tripping you as you're walking and you fall and scrape your knees, tear your dress and your stockings*,\" <strong>NYC Trans Oral History Project, December 16th, 2017, Interview Transcript #054<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">She was a lion of transgender liberation and how she carried her life and her love for our people should be a map for how to move forward through this darkness.  She explains that it is small communal resistance that gives us the courage to move forward through the world despite its laws, bans, and attempts to deny us our dignity.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">\"It\u2019s the needs of my community that are important and I\u2019ll hop over twenty mother fuckers to make sure one of my girls is safe. Because we have suffered so long, so hard, so often and so intently that if we get the chance to get some moments break... if I can provide that, I\u2019m going to give it to them. There\u2019s a history here. There\u2019s a culture of who we are.**\" <strong>NYC Trans Oral History Project, December 16th, 2017, Interview Transcript #054<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!               <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!               <br>WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!                      <br>WAGONS!                                                                                WAGONS!          <br>WAGONS!                                                                                WAGONS!          <br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photograph of covered wagons traveling the Oregon trail.\" class=\"wp-image-73337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg 906w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2-768x294.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: A black and white photograph of covered wagons traveling the Oregon trail. Image courtesy of the National Park Service. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The bright shadows of love are still here despite another day's loss<br>Care is a quiet urge <br>Soft trembles of nerves stretching towards each other <br>A demand that plasters the tongue <br>Yes, I need you<br>Care is us carrying the watering pots together <br>Rinsing away the dirt and summer bugs<br>Care is returning to the world with no hesitations<br>No Fear<br>An admission<br>A choir<br>Care is me processing my own shit before I ask you to clean up yours<br>I look at how this world has cared for me despite all the challenges my people face<br>I board a train to Philadelphia to visit my trans daughter<br>I read another transsexual Substack<br>I think about how poor I am and who I can ask for money when I fly home tomorrow<br>My daughter asks me to speak to her students at Penn about transsexual cultural life<br>I scan my notes for something of resonance to give them <br>The melatonin drips through the skull as the train roll through fields of yellow wheatgrass<br>The conductor's call awakens my mind and I scramble to collect my luggage as I depart the train<br>The station's sterile bricks sit empty and still<br>I roll my luggage down the street towards campus<br>Students fill the sidewalks<br>Their open eyes a window a screen a wrinkled page<br>My daughter finds me on the block<br>YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY BITCH!<br>We cackle offensively <br>Holding each other in quiet joy<br>We climb the ivory stairs toward her office<br>She asks if I'll read one of these tranny pornhub poems<br>These drug soaked indoctrinations of lavish transsexual life but<br>It is the lineage of transgender love that have shaped and held me through <br>these years <br>A sublime path through all this fear &amp; loathing <br>I think of Miss Major <br>Cecilia<br>Sylvia<br>Marsha &amp; all of us <br>Still here fighting to live<br>Fighting to love and be loved<br>I tell her I want to teach the children about my sister Bryn Kelly and her gorgeous devastating brilliance<br>The classroom opens<br>We sit in a circle<br>I say hello<br>And <br>We begin.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">(Phoenix, AZ)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">I.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">                                                       PASTORAL PULPIT FAWNING IN LINEN PERSECUTION \nRED GLASSY EYES \nTHUNDERSTORMS RAINING MAGA APPLAUSE \nFOG MACHINES EJACULATING NEON BILLOWED STAGE LIGHTS \nOH KING OF GLORY!\nOH LIVING GOD!\nOH PRINCE OF POPULIST PAIN &amp; WHITE GRIEVANCE!\nOH VEILED FAGGOT PROPHET!\nHIDE THY FACE \n&amp; BOW TO THE THRONE OF DESOLATE EMPIRE!\nLET ALL EARTHLY POWERS &amp; PRINCIPALITIES GATHER IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GOD OF ALL EXTINCTIONS! \nTHE GOD OF EVERY EXTERMINATION! \nTHE GOD OF EVERLASTING LIFE!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">II.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">Stand to face this tasseled horned beast<br>Wailing in brass toned hooves<br>Oil pirate skull flags<br>Blue ribbons <br>Red stripes<br>White scars <br>Sniper nest<br>Gleaming metal teeth<br>Nuclear weapons <br>Bombs over Baghdad<br>Screams over Selma<br>Star spangled wheezing <br>Off key<br>Off the rack<br>Chorus of crows <br>Murders mocking every lying state<br>Fog screen televisions<br>Tinsel sagging throats singing this nightmare anthem for<br>Imaginary kilos sinking into the Caribbean<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">III.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Mother of Pearl<br>Vanilla Virgin<br>White Dove<br>White Flight <br>Eggshell Economy <br>Cornsilk Cunted Chanel<br>Ivory Trade<br>Old Bridal Lace<br>China White <br>Cocaine Chalk<br>Powdered Sugar<br>Papal Smoke<br>Salt Pillar<br>Coconut Chiffon<br>Creampie Cumdump<br>Cotton Death Gown<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">IV.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">AN ASSASSIN IS NOT A THING THAT HAS BEING <br>THE ASSASSIN MUST GIVE UP HIS HUMANITY TO CREATE SOMETHING<br>THAT HAS BEING<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST CHEW ON BINARY WORKS IN THE NAME OF SOMETHING THAT HAS BEING<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST LABOR UNTIL SHE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CORPSE<br>ROTTING AMONGST THE CONEFLOWERS<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST LET THAT BITCH KNOW<br>WE 'AINT SWALLOWING YOUR SHIT <br>THE ASSASSIN MUST BE SMOKING ONE OF YOUR TWAT CIGARS<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST HAVE LOST HIS GUCCI WALLET<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST BE ANOTHER CHEAP SISSY CLIENT<br>THE ASSASSIN MUST HAVE EVENED THE SCALES<br>CHARLIE LIVES ON<br>THE ASSASSIN WILL DIE<br>YOU WILL SUFFER<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">V.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">Martyrs poets preachers plumbers prostitutes politicians pigs<br>All of us<br>Stuck together in this golden desolation this temple of shit &amp; flies &amp; smiling nazis <br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br><br>The lust &amp; longing for broken glass<br>Fecal coated diamonds<br>Freedom stained shirts <br>Blood soaked bibles<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br><br>Holy Spirit Live Streaming<br>Holy Spirit Crypto <br>Holy Spirit Incel<br>Holy Spirit Embezzlement<br>Miss Holy Spirit USA<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">Our turning point<br><br>Our crowded ballroom\t\t`\t\t\t\tOur dermal fillers<br>                       <br>\t\t\tOur embossed business cards<br><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur death squads<br><br><br><br><br>Our civilization<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">VI. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">white nationalist furry orgy<br>femboy concubine fucked &amp; filled 'til the sun rises upon this burial ground<br>fox grin<br>cuckold chair<br>god's gaping hole<br>cabinet of rapists<br>tranny tits <br>leather belts<br>forced feminization <br>BE A GOOD SLUT &amp; SUCK HER GIRL COCK<br>fuck app outage<br>prolapse porn addiction <br>mistress abortions<br>shame kink<br>Viagra veins<br>faggots on standby <br>parTybottom Christ<br>anal apostles <br>CAN YOU FEEL THIS REVIVAL SURGING THROUGH YOUR SLIT?<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">VII.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Lynched Amaranths<br>White &amp; Red Rose<br>Blood Carnation<br>Violet Wisteria<br>Pig Tail<br>Purple Thistle<br>Baby's Breath<br>Animal of War <br><br><br>Lists of predators &amp; venom sacs <br>Lists of Senators &amp; Heads of State<br>Lists of poison dart frogs their skin convulsing our lips into foam nests<br>Scorpion tongued brutal German mothers<br>NAKED COMMUNISTS SING US A VERSE FROM THE SISSY GOSPEL<br>Crucible of politics<br> Crucifix sieg heil<br>Tumor riddled sacrificial goat<br>Blue dusk peering through bullet proof glass on a wooden stage<br><br><br>Son of god folded into suffering corpse shape<br>Silent screams<br>Flickering European torch<br>Illuminated against the Mouth of Death <br>My favorite tweet in the immediate aftermath:<br>the look in his eyes as his head is blown back is proof he saw the light of Islam <br><br>Their legacy of despondence &amp; despair<br>Athens<br>Rome<br>Plymouth Rock<br>Monticello<br>Mar-A-Lago <br>Stephen Miller balding Grand Dragon of  this new multicultural Klan <br>Coyotes<br>Wolves<br>Cowboys<br>Gladiators<br>Brown Shirts<br>Bullseye<br><br><br><br>A five hour memorial of crimes &amp; confessions: murder  genocide  slavery  imperialism  colonialism  famine  free trade  Abu Ghraib  the crack epidemic AIDS  Tuskegee  Black Wall Street  strange fruit  sterilizations  the MOVE bombing  the TARP bailout  comfort women  battered wives  trauma plots  Pogroms  human trafficking  organ harvesting  crosses burning  the Phillipine-American War  Cambodia  My Lai  Mayan mass graves  Bay of Pigs  Skeleton Cave Yavapai Massacre  Ferguson  Hiroshima &amp; Nagasaki  Dachau  Sarajevo  Fallujah  the Inquisition the Lavender Scare  the Great Depression  Deep Water Horizon  James Byrd  Sam Nordquist  Duanna Johnson  Vonderrit Myers  Breonna Taylor  Sandra Bland  Roxana Hernandez<br>Caelee Lovelight <br><br>Antebellum widow hitting all her marks dabbing every drop of melted mascara staring boldly into every single teleprompter   <br>Mary Magdalene memories her grief stricken caress &amp; slow cleansing kisses upon blue bullet wound flesh<br>The cars race toward a bleeding sunrise the orange traffic signs point toward<br>another gravesite<br>The dead rise &amp; fall &amp; ask to be forgiven <br>A school bus straddles cement faces<br>their facial deformities<br>5ml syringe needles<br>dead Jews on a beach<br>Sudanese women holding hands as they march into the river tied to boulders<br>crocodiles smile at the harvest<br>Do you really need monsters to tell you<br>that they've always eaten with no remorse?<br>FUCK YOU &amp; ALL YOUR OFFSPRING<br><br>The bridge between brains crumbles into the ocean <br>nothing feels right <br>the mask has been unsealed <br>the sky becomes black glitch <br>Glass splinters drowning children &amp; pearl yachts <br>The creek has taken over everything <br>cabins <br>beds<br>desks<br>trucks<br>trailers<br>teddy bears <br>lungs caked in mud grass metal  <br>sacrificial burial ground &amp; transsexual political prisoners <br>Maybe it was our god's turn <br>to punish <br>you. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">(Minneapolis, MN)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">They murdered a poet<br>And the snow melts<br>They murdered a poet<br>And the rocks wept<br>They murdered a poet <br>And the wind froze<br>They murdered a poet <br>And the pigs danced in kettles<br>They cracked molars<br>They kicked down doors<br>They gassed an infant<br>They plucked corneas<br>They suffocated George Floyd<br>They prayed to Jesus<br>They demanded papers<br>They didn't bother to look at<br>And the lies they memorized are dealt<br>They murdered<br>A<br>Poet. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">(Saint Louis, MO)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Your greatest shame fractured rib another violent drunk transsexual daughter of Eve slobbering in piss melted snow more forgiveness than you deserve a bucket of pills for our family's ailments heart disease depression anxiety nerve inflammation gender dysphoria erectile dysfunction insomnia DoxyPeP ADHD antihistamines Oxycontin HIV<br>Today's fascist itinerary echoes across the room steel plates and shotgun shells ricochet off the streets we sleep and sleep and sleep hoping maybe this is all a bad joke a dream a hallucination hours days weeks pass in tweaker doom-scrolls begging the question, <br>what will tomorrow bring? <br>Smoke raptures another building on the north side as we shuffle our cars to the shoulder for the wailing firetrucks<br>This silver halo an arched crown of ache upon the rotted red bricks<br>The wet plywood gagging our gaping mouths<br>Our bodies bound by despair and desires<br>Carefully construct these blessings to the unspoken world<br>Golden Chanterelles<br>their tongues a flesh offering covered in dirt and pollen <br>The slow piano keys welling tears up into our dreams <br>a queer child begging for 'mones<br>One line at a time<br>Be it poetics or narcotics<br>Whirlpool guts death visions bedridden damsel in distress mirage lights or nebula stars melting down drainpipes daddies rusted pickup truck cruising across turquoise hill horizon   <br>Skunk clouds drifting across Dutchtown<br>The eternal classroom full of stoner hicks evangelical teenagers spitwad chew bottles cans of hairspray children cussin'<br>The always too late train it's malfunctioning turnstiles<br>The porn studio directors reflected in their monitors as we bounce on our bully's cocks<br>Black steam tiled bathhouse and<br>Grizzled men pumping rhythmic <br>Semen shined lips<br>Your outlines shadow stencils fucking across lolita blue skies <br>languages SOLD assholes RIMMED<br>moans INSIDE wet GUTS <br>liturgy BEGGING us to LIE<br>Slosh of cum and shit <br>Thrust of cock and shit<br>foul paste coated latex and he stops so you can clean yourself up in the bathroom where you snuck a fleet inside your checkered Baggu as you rinse out and wipe off<br>White fluorescents popcorn motel gaze <br>the saddest minutes waiting for the trick to wash off his dick <br>Stale sheets <br>Blue Boys<br>Marlboro Reds <br>Microwave the coke plate<br>The lime hard seltzers smell like bubbling meth pipes<br>Popper perfumed Bottega the fatal mistake of a woman on the run the neon tears burning a ceremonial death a release a song that makes you shed every single cell writhing in the pool of every single breath ever exhaled every lovers lips every bone every drug every nightmare the floor is open the speakers hum in glorious hunger look directly into the camera swallow the blades and let the earth and his mouth collapse upon your tits.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">(Macon, GA)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">I AM THE EMANCIPATOR!<br>Princess LaVonne <br>Pancake makeup<br>Piano ghost <br>Chain of Love<br>Lacquer brow <br>The Living Flame<br>Mirror suit conduit<br>Grey Hound dish pit<br>Chitlin circuit <br>Ponk Sissy Faggot<br>Taxi Blues<br>SHUD UP!!!<br>Bootlegger Preacher Daddy <br>Billy Wright<br>Esquerita<br>Green silk <br>Gold Shoes<br>Wild Cat<br>Shakedown<br>Sequins<br>Orgy prayers <br>Ecclesiastes<br>Bible thumbing<br>I WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!<br>Flitty<br>Filthy<br>Running cunt <br>Writhing blues under blue club lights<br>Tutti Frutti<br>Titty eaten nasty midnight sessions<br>Vinyl moans<br>Fuck me<br>Fuck ME<br>FUCK ME<br>IM A STAR!!!!<br>A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE BORN IN FAGGOT CUM LOADS<br>ROCK N ROLL<br>HIPHOP<br>HOUSE<br>TECHNO<br>POP<br>BALLROOM <br>Pussies<br>Percussion <br>Piano keys<br>All the white girls were screaming over me<br>Half a cent a record<br>OH JAVA WE GONNA TERRORIZE !!!<br>PUSSY ON THE FLOOR<br>SISSIES DELIGHTING UP N DOWN THE QUARTER<br>LONG TALL SALLY<br>LUCILLE<br>SAXOPHONES <br>AND THAT VOICE TEARING <br>CARRYING<br>PROPHESYING<br>RAN A TRAIN ON HIS BEAUTIFUL FAT ASS<br>RUN THRU THE CHAPEL <br>READ ALL THE <br>VERSES OF SALVATION 'TIL THIS WORLD ASCENDS INTO SWEAT SOAKED COSMIC ECSTASY <br>HEAVEN ON EARTH NOW<br>MOLLY WET NOW<br>PANTIES SWEET NOW<br>SISSIES IN TOO DEEP NOW<br>TRANSSEXUAL LOSS OF ALL CONTROL<br>FAGGOT INDOCTRINATION<br>LITTLE WHITE BABIES CORRUPTED <br>HE WAS WALKING LIKE A WOMAN<br>SEDUCTIVE LIKE A WOMAN<br>LOUD LIKE A WOMAN<br>WON'T SHUT UP LIKE A WOMAN<br>FUCK ELVIS <br>FUCK JERRY<br>FUCK PAT FUCKING BOONE<br>EVERYBODY LIKE TO GO TO ORGIES <br>SOME PPL WISHED THEY NEVER HAD TO LEAVE<br>IF YOU KNOCKED ON MY DOOR AND I WANTED MORE<br>FOR SURE<br>LEE ANGEL<br>APOCALYPSE <br>DIAMONDS SINKING INTO THE SEA<br>SIN EATER<br>DEVIL MUSIC<br>SALVATION WARM LIKE PUSSY<br>JOY! JOY! JOY!<br>STAIN-GLASS SISSY<br>SIT IN THIS PEW<br>LET HIS LOVE WASH OVER U<br>ERNESTINE IN ALL WHITE<br>SHORT VEIL<br>ATOM BOMBED<br>GOSPEL DIMENSION<br>KEY INDUCED RAPTURE<br>RAW<br>RIOTS<br>NO ONE KNOWS THEM BUT THEIR MOTHERS <br>EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET<br>KNOWS <br>MY NAME <br><strong>for <br>Little Richard<\/strong><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">(THE RAVE)<br><br>BLOOD ON THE PLEASERS A DISCO PURGATORY BENEATH BEAUTIFUL SKIN VOMIT &amp; FECES &amp; SHARDS <br><br>OF GLASS RIPPED NYLONS PENTECOSTAL REVIVALS VISIONS OF PARADISE THE SPEAKERS TREMBLE &amp; <br><br>OUR HIPS MOVE TO THE BEATS <br><br>THE HOLE IN MY SEPTUM <br><br>BEGS <br><br>FOR <br><br>MORE<br><br>PEARLS INSIDE PUSSY GUTS GLOW TO ALL THE BURNING MACHINES <br><br>THE PILGRIM IN YOU WILL BE SACRIFICED TO THE BLOOD STEREOS YOUR SKIN WILL MELT IN GLORIOUS <br><br>RETRIBUTION THE DRUMS BECKON THE GIRLS TO THE DANCE FLOOR<br><br>WE BEAT OUR BRAIDS ON THE BODIES OF NECRO NATIONALIST ZOMBIES<br><br>THE SIREN CALL OF DISCO SUMMONS THE GODDESSES OF <br><br>HOUSE<br><br>VOGUE WITH CUNT RAGE<br><br>PULL DAGGERS FROM YOUR PURSE<br><br>SING PRAISE TO ALL THE PAINS OF OUR UNFORGOTTEN VOICES<br><br>&amp; LET THAT BITCH KNOW!!!<br><br>A TRUE TRANSSEXUAL ENTRANCE BODIED LEATHER PAGEANT QUEENS VIALS &amp; FURS &amp; MUSCLE <br><br>BOTTOMS<br><br>RIPPING APART METALLIC THREADED COUTURE GOWNS CUNT GYRATIONS TOTAL LOSS OF ALL <br><br>CONTROL<br><br>GONZO GOONS<br><br>GHB<br><br>GANJACUM<br><br>POPPERS<br><br>PILLS<br><br>MOLLY<br><br>METH<br><br>M-CAT<br><br>KETAMINE<br><br>CHUBBY COCKS<br><br>TRANNY MILF<br><br>TECHNO &amp; REVOLUTIONARY READS!!!!!!!<br><br>SATIN GLOVED SISSY SYNCHRONIZATION PUSSY ELECTRO DRUMS<br><br>MUSIC MOANS PULSATING PARADISE BAREBACK BASS LINES <br><br>&amp;<br> <br>THE CROWD CARRIES ALL YOUR PAIN AWAY UNTIL NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR DAWN<br><br>EXIST BETWEEN<br><br>US<br><br>&amp;<br><br>THE CUNT SWEPT FLOOR<br><br>ECHOES OF TRANSSEXUALS WATCHING HOW THEIR BODIES SOFTEN<br><br>HIPS WIDEN<br><br>ASS WILDING<br><br>GROW BREASTS<br><br>GO AWWWFFFF<br><br>OPEN YOUR MOUTH<br><br>SWALLOW CUM<br><br>WORK WRISTS FANNING BANJEE CUNT<br><br>ALL THE DOLLS ON THE FLOOR SCREAMING HOUSE DECK <br><br>HALLELUJAHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>SPUN SPIRITUALS VINYL SQUEALS FLOOR LENGTH ORGANZA<br><br>GLOWING VEINS COCAINE GREASED DICKS DESIGNER HANDBAGS  DJ BOOTHS DISINTEGRATING INTO <br><br>ELECTRO ACID ATOMS<br><br>THIS IS FOR FAGGOTS<br><br>THIS IS FOR SURVIVORS<br><br>THIS IS FOR US<br><br>THIS KINDOM WON'T LAST FOREVER<br><br>SO WALLOW THIS SLOPPY BEAST INTO HOLY SHAKING OBLIVION<br><br>&amp;<br><br>DANCE <br><br>UNTIL<br><br>AMERICA<br><br>IS<br><br>FUCKING <br><br>DEAD.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\">The End.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center six-pattern-credit is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2316\" height=\"2316\" src=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited.jpg 2316w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-3-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2316px) 100vw, 2316px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>About the author:<\/strong> Joss&nbsp;Barton<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry, non-fiction confessional essays, drag artistry, and spoken word stage performances,&nbsp;Joss&nbsp;examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical, political, and pop cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and disco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">She currently curates Transvengence: A Transgender Performance Showcase in Chicago, and her first book of poems <em>Goodbye To A Dream Believed!<\/em> Is forthcoming from FuturePoem Press Fall 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center six-pattern-credit is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sixtyinchesfromcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0687-summer-mills-3-2.jpg 1974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>About the illustrator:<\/strong> summer mills (she\/her) is a printmaker, illustrator, and graphic designer from Chicago. 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