ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name is KC700.

I’m the bastard of twenty-four hour news,

Every stereotype ever, and all those cafe barbarians.

I’m Kurdish, and black and white like

Life before the colored picture. When

Misery wore lingerie and burnt cork lipstick.

Forever a martyr! Im a charismatic monster,

Self-absorbed saint, and could care less what

You think (I think?). a conservative by day,

But liberal as the sun lulls asleep.

Straight as a sharp shooter’s scope,

But a queer gaze may excite me.

How do I look?

Like a beautiful bed of pthalo blue petals -

Of course.

But beneath…

Im all sleazy sheets, and

Springs and weeds, and

Crooked roots of burnt umber.

DID I MENTION

I’m I? I’m me? ME, I’m I?

I’m a -

Mother fucking maniac!

I s’pose that makes me

American