Valin Paige – A Self Portrait in Red

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Valin Paige, performing at Camp Bar in Saint Paul, MN.

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Assist person asked me as all great Stories by trans people begin if I want To keep my penis a list of ways to Answer yes but like in a jar pickled and Yellowing a jaundice thing to remind me Brush fires are essential to wetlands Ecology Yes but like nailed above the door Pretend blessing from sex a marker of Safe passage from before to after a Personal note look I know this is not How gender confirmation surgery works But I have had friends who asked to keep Their breast tissue and appendix so why Not my penis – yes but like as a big ol Pillar just jutting out to remind me of What we can live without another list of Answers no because on occasion dysphoria Reaches its part hands into my pants to Cradle all that is there makes it dry Ache and not didn't want no visa I have Been Penta mum rage pent-up rage rushing To my own sales defence when my body Can't melt away I demand of it now a Personal note I've been a fistfight in a Trippy alley I've been blood gutted to Strange gods my sister asked me not to Be a bridesmaid in her wedding last Night I've been cutting my body into Kite strings have you ever seen a red Snowfall have you ever seen a girl fall From the sky I put on Johnny Cash and Sat next to the bathtub looked into its Yellowing eyes and asked it to swallow

Me whole yes and no and yes and no and Yesterday no and yes or no Did you see the Adam's apple it couldn't Have been a cyst person asked me Everything assist person can ask me and I screamed myself into sharp-edged Flower petals I burst into bloodletting Do you get the metaphor do you do you [Applause]

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