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Oh fuck yeah I wanna be a metal girl / with metal in my skull, veins, spine!! -- big leather stomper crushing my head/pedal // wanna go fast -- hypersonic superspeed: shed shitbox aluminum for steel to rival / god’s design: rudimentary, uninspired stock product // + flash titanium at pretty muscleboys, tongue on teeth -- being so deliciously artificial + freefalling across hot asphalt // fuck biology, biological lovers worship my divine intervention! + I ooze oil gallons from my gorgeous girl orifices // what power, what elegance,, what flesh? does a girl like me no good / when my tangled wire veins glow: LED angels in the nightlife -- automated billboard advertising unlimited metamorphosis ++ weary flesh can’t resist this: automaton temptation // crack open, vivisection split / at evergreen light; birth fluids slick city streets -- let’s floor it / hydroplane into reincarnation



j ambrose writes weird, queer, and filthy stories and poetry. It is an agender creature and professional college drop-out, who finds the juiciest inspiration in all workings of the flesh. You can find his work in Vast Chasm Magazine, Hungry Shadow Press, or the dreaded thing himself on Tumblr @caninebrainz or his website.
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