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I WANT A PRESIDENT ... Zoe Leonard, POEM

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03.11.2020 - von Zoe Leonard

"I want
a dyke*
for
president.

I want
a person
with
aids for
president

and I
want
a fag* for
vice
president

and
I want
someone
with no
health
insurance

and I want
someone who
grew up in a place
where the earth
is so satured
with toxic waste
that they didn`t
have a choice
about getting
leukaemia.

I want
a president
that had
an abortion
at sixteen
and

I want a
Candidate
who isn`t
the lesser
of two
evils

and
I want a
president
who lost
their last
lover
to aids,

who still
sees that in
their eyes
every time
they lay
down to
rest,

who held
their lover in
their arms
and knew
they were
dying.

I want a president
with no air
conditioning,

a president
who has
stood on
line at the
clinic, at the
dmv, at the
welfare
office

and has been unemployed

and
layed off
and sexually
harassed
and gaybashed
and
deported.

I want
someone
who has
spent the
night in the
tombs

and had
a cross
burned on
their lawn
and survived
rape.

I want
someone
who has
been in love
and been
hurt,

who
respects
sex,

who
has
made
mistakes
and learned
from them.

I want
a Black
woman
for president.

I want
someone
with bad
teeth
and an
attitude, (and an attitude durchgestrichen)

someone
who has
eaten
that nasty (that nasty durchgestrichen)
hospital
food,

someone
who cross
dresses
and has
done drugs
and been
in therapy.

I want
someone
who has
commited
civil
disobedience.

And
I want
to know
why we started
lerning
somewhere
down the line

that a
president
is always
a clown:

always
a
john ***

and never a hooker. ****

Always a boss
and
never a
worker,

always
a liar,
always a thief...

and
never
caught."



Zoe Leonard: "I want a president", Gato Negro Ediciones, first edition 2017, ISBN: 978-607-97450-8-0
32 pages, English, 10.5 cm x 8.5 cm, Printed in Risograph, Retail Price 15 USD
Link

Written in the early 1990s, this poem-manifesto was first published in 1992, following the announcement of the poet and activist Eileen Myles as a candidate to the presidency of the United States.
Eileen Myles unter: Link

* dyke: A female homosexual who plays the male role, esp. a large, masculine-looking woman.
** fag: A male homosexual.
*** john: A man, esp. an average or typical man.
**** hooker: Hure

Quelle: Zoe Leonard