
Kyle Carrero Lopez — Ode to the Crop Top
Poetry Unbound
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The Ode in Carero Lopez's Poem
i love that meaning of the word ode for this poem, because i feel like calcarero lopez isn't calling down a greek god, but embodying some divine being. How i adore your spunk, your sincere open call for air on my belly. Hair. There's a break between belly and hair in the same line, and this line, therefore, can mean so much. It's teasing and sex and playful. But it's all so fun to engage the magnificent spirit of freedom, invitation and magnificence of queering questions to do with gender and sex and clothing. That little target boy groaning, o and then the gy and d c saying, why
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