“There Is Always a Face to Tend to” by Tommye Blount

A poem by alum Tommye Blount (poetry, ’13) appears at The Offing:

Look at your Manhunt profile: “White muscle power bottom looking

for a non-fem black top to fuck me in a mask and a hood.” You want

a rape scene you saw in a movie once, a kind of beauty

only a man not used to pain prays for. “The door will be unlocked —

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