Jillian A. Fantin
"I recognise my presence as a student and creative on the land of Native peoples, including the Miami Nation (Myaamia), the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Bodéwadmiké), the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (Kiikaapoi), all of whom continue to thrive and educate." ~ Jillian A. Fantin
Self Portrait as a Vegas Show Girl | photo by Kate Luther
Monologue of a Vegas Show Girl
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a hammock made of bodies!
holographic dolphins tinsel portals grown of / chicken wire tissue paper boas / scrunched gunpowder Who Wants To Die For Shower Curtain Burlesque? as brillo pads icicle into g-strings / pointe shoes crumble and revues watermelon jerky / my heather sweet’s in sandworm drag |
rubber glove squirmin
this jubilee!’s a tightlacer measures her legs by days / vomit by the wind crescent me / scrub me plink the molting crayons and burn hatchlings ribbon the saran wrap until i bend / until i crook into a staff. y’know jubilee! jubilee! let’s tits your save in resin |
I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine | photo by Kate Luther
Portrait of the Artist as a Trash Gambit
the setting sun in Don’t Know City shows everything but--
that is, a lightbulb named elaine who drugs grapefruit juice
//
if you have enough cavities you can play chess in your mouth
says french lace dollnoface // she plugs in // asks
what sort of bolo tie you think you are // (faux fur, the kind
where green neons // and animals still die) // beep
beep beep // goes the nowhere train // lightbulb elaine
wasp corsets her paracord cheekfiller // i wanna know
how the FUCK you got a WASP into a CORSET //
dickless croquet balls nylon // rodeos vinegar pie
// as a headless comma wanes to fractured hangnail
in frantic fishnet foam suspension // is she
the Mistress Starbeam or a starsick midriff
//
you say she’s cotton and threatened to burn the studio--
who are you calling POLLUTED
that is, a lightbulb named elaine who drugs grapefruit juice
//
if you have enough cavities you can play chess in your mouth
says french lace dollnoface // she plugs in // asks
what sort of bolo tie you think you are // (faux fur, the kind
where green neons // and animals still die) // beep
beep beep // goes the nowhere train // lightbulb elaine
wasp corsets her paracord cheekfiller // i wanna know
how the FUCK you got a WASP into a CORSET //
dickless croquet balls nylon // rodeos vinegar pie
// as a headless comma wanes to fractured hangnail
in frantic fishnet foam suspension // is she
the Mistress Starbeam or a starsick midriff
//
you say she’s cotton and threatened to burn the studio--
who are you calling POLLUTED
Party Penis | photo by Kate Luther
Party Penis
lampshades bonevein
the watercolour wangs
House of Fluff homewares
squeak in botched hairline
KNEEL
to honeycaked Priapus,
silk n sheer ball bonnets,
deflated bubbles waiting
for a taffy plumping
squirmles and Peppa Pink
worship jizz confetti
(those Good Vibrations)
for fudge flooded rivers
and an apricot farm
o cherrypink Priapus,
do you coin operate? token
shimmy? foodgrade glitter?
or do you
slipper Lady
Footfucker, canopy
waterslide beds,
squish mochi testes
in pastel hairshirt?
KNEEL
ah Priapus, scuffknee sacrifice
for a Streep she-devil Priapus,
uncut n bubblegumbitchy,
pomegrant us
just one lubeslick kiss
before we pepto abysmal
in your forever sludge--
all prostrate prostates
and raspberry ripple dipsticks
the watercolour wangs
House of Fluff homewares
squeak in botched hairline
KNEEL
to honeycaked Priapus,
silk n sheer ball bonnets,
deflated bubbles waiting
for a taffy plumping
squirmles and Peppa Pink
worship jizz confetti
(those Good Vibrations)
for fudge flooded rivers
and an apricot farm
o cherrypink Priapus,
do you coin operate? token
shimmy? foodgrade glitter?
or do you
slipper Lady
Footfucker, canopy
waterslide beds,
squish mochi testes
in pastel hairshirt?
KNEEL
ah Priapus, scuffknee sacrifice
for a Streep she-devil Priapus,
uncut n bubblegumbitchy,
pomegrant us
just one lubeslick kiss
before we pepto abysmal
in your forever sludge--
all prostrate prostates
and raspberry ripple dipsticks
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