ABSTRACT—

in which we all learn how to make our
own bodies, just fling ourselves together
outta whatever kind a materials we
need, to where you’d be walking or
maybe hovering through the alleys a
cluster a brass coathooks & PVC &
permafrost & you’d brush circuits with a
handsome something passing by made
up outta fresh cabbage leaves &
Christmas lights & the most rusteaten
bicycle chains you ever did see & maybe
later on at the bar you’d catch auras
with a pretty splash a green, CD
booklets from every single one a Björk’ s
albums swirling around their lampshade
& the two a you might could get a room
somewhere or maybe even might could
become a room somewhere together &
fit yerselves up into some corner a the
town square looking up at the clouds
pulling em down having the whole sky
over every Tuesday night for dinner

Cea (Constantine Jones) is an interdisciplinary thingmaker & poet. They are a member of the Artist+ Registry at Visual AIDS, where they also serve on the Archives Committee, as well as a member of the collective, What Would An HIV Doula Do?. They are the author of the hybrid text IN STILL ROOMS (The Operating System, 2020) & the collaborative chapbook with artist Vicente Sampaio, BALEEN: A Poem In Twelve Days (Ursus Americanus, 2021). Their work has been performed or exhibited at various venues across NYC & Tennessee.