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23 positions in a one-night stand Lyrics by Danez Smith

Issue Nineteen

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after Prince
Facing the TV, we do it missionary with my
head hanging over the bed so we can both
watch The Color Purple on BET. When
Shug Avery sings “God is Tryna Tell You
Something” we both start to cry, your tears
falling on my face and into my hair.
//
We sit cross legged on my floor on a Space
Jam comforter. We take turns smacking each
other saying rabbit season, duck season, rabbit
season, duck season.
//
I say eat me and you pull a bottle of ranch out
of nowhere. I say nah nan nigga, but you grunt
and devour.
//
Doggie Style & we both eat ribs.
//
You take my last bone and I get mad, so I
pull a rib out of your chest. It grows a
woman around it. She makes us lick her
boots.
//
I suck you with a lot of gusto and don’t stop
until it’s too late & you're all gone. It takes me
3 hours to pass you. you kick the whole time.
//
I’m smoking a blunt and watching Love &
Hip Hop LA while you suck my toes. You
make it all the way to the knee before you
suggest a gag.
//
you put one of my legs on your shoulder and
mount the other to the wall. you make car
noises and ride reckless, I make my eyes look
like a deer’s, my body a road.
//
I sit on your face and I read you Sula.
//
We do the Dirty Sanchez while discussing
the racial politics of intimacy.
//
You make me a sandwich. You slice and slice
and slide until I am thin and piled and
topped with tomatoes.
//
Reverse-Reverse Cowgirl aka Someone get
that horse off that woman! We kill the horse.
We ride its ghost into the sunset.
//
you stand on one side of the room and I
stand on the other. We run toward each
other at full speed and become a singular sad
man playing with himself.
//
You go into a phone booth and come out
Superman. I go into a phone booth and
come out a slightly smaller phone booth.
you go into me.
//
You throw grapes at me while I dance
around naked singing Purple Rain.
//
You run out of grapes and start throwing
whatever you can grab: the coffee table, my
phone charger, rib tips, the dog, my copy of
Sula, shade, and a bird cage filled with the
saddest dove alive.
//
How bout up in the library on top of books, but you
can’t be too loud.
//
The woman who grew from your rib (you
forgot about her, huh?) is picking greens in
the corner. When she’s done, she stuff me
full of collards the wrong way, stuffs you full
of corn bread.
//
Tired, I lay on my side and lift one leg in the
air. You drill and drill and drill, I watch New
Girl and check my email.
//
Doggy Style again. This time, extra ribs.
//
You finish finally and lay on top of me out
of breath. Slowly, you turn to into ribs. The
ribs slowly turn into 11 better women.
//
You go to take a shower while I stay in bed.
When you come back, I’m gone, the window
is busted, & there’s a pile of bones where I
was. You cry out for God and I turn on the
lights.
//
You ask me to marry you for the night and I
say I guess. you slick your ring finger into me.
I turn to gold.
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Danez Smith

Danez Smith

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