Sideshow Concessions
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Lucas Crawford
Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents, Sideshow Concessions is the unofficial story of someone who is both a bearded lady and the fattest man in the world. (From Invisible Publishing)
From the book
INTRODUCING THE LETTER EX (1)
My girlfriend and I are unfortunately faithful
to big pharma; we take the same
birth control pill.
to big pharma; we take the same
birth control pill.
My girlfriend has a name: Gone.
I have a name: glad.
Some days I wanted to tell her: go fly a kite!
I have a name: glad.
Some days I wanted to tell her: go fly a kite!
Then she'd have been Gone, with the wind.
And quite frankly, my dear, you're still wrong
if you think I give a damn.
And quite frankly, my dear, you're still wrong
if you think I give a damn.
From Sideshow Concessions by Lucas Crawford ©2015. Published by Invisible Publishing.