DESIRE MARKET: A HINGE POEM


This work originally appeared in a limited print run of Pop Gun Art’s The ‘60s Zine (Vol. 2). It was a response to Cable Knit, a group exhibition at Pop Gun in Spring 2025, which is about “projecting eroticism and the abject onto amorphous artworks.” A reading of it occured at Foreign & Domestic Gallery, Chinatown NYC, on Aug. 19, 2025.

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A boundary of mine is yes

A life goal of mine total abjection

A quick rant about Tennis

A random fact I love is brat

A shower thought I recently had I am naturally beautiful but I don’t know that I am

All I ask is that you match and we never speak 

Apparently, my life's soundtrack is the Reagan-Thatcher era

Best travel story affirmative consent

Biggest risk I've taken in-unit washer dryer

Change my mind about food

Dating me is like my dog

Do you agree or disagree that therapy

Don't hate me if I Love Island

First round is on me if girlhood

Give me travel tips passenger princess

Green flags I look for 2-3 times a day

Guess the song Sally Rooney 

How to pronounce my name House music

I bet you can't surprise me

I feel most supported when you #MeToo

I geek out on Peeled Pencil Choke

I get myself out of a funk by rub her coke 

I go crazy for ethical nonmonogamy 

I hype myself up by subtitles on

I know the best spot in town for recommendations 

I recently discovered that travel 

I want someone who cooking

I wind down by ghosting

I wish more people knew Japan

I won't shut up about being on here

I'll brag about you to my friends if waged work would be women's ticket out of culturally mandated domesticity

I'll fall for you if abuse of power comes as no surprise

I'll give you the set up, you guess the punchline Abortion rights

I'll pick the topic if you start the conversation yesterday 

I'm convinced that if you trip me

I'm looking for The Office

I'm weirdly attracted to wasting my time

If loving this is wrong, I don't want to be right just ask me

Let's debate this topic abundance mindset

Let's make sure we're on the same page about developing my frontal lobe

Most spontaneous thing I've done liberation

My BFF’s take on why you should date me sex positivity

My Love Language is trad

My best Dad Joke pasta

My best celebrity impression please

My biggest date fail settling down

My cry-in-the-car song is smart, outdoorsy, kind, funny, and has a good relationship with their family

My favorite line from a movie Marriage is an economic proposition

My friends ask me for advice about espresso martinis

My greatest strength talking stage 

My happy place my mother

My last journal entry was about quality time and words of affirmation

My most controversial opinion is emotionally available

My most irrational fear is in town for a week

My self-care routine is somewhere between the concepts of subject and object

My simple pleasures to the front

My therapist would say I [emoji][:emoji][emoji]

Never have I ever avoidant attachment

One thing I'll never do again prepolitical desire

Proof I have musical talent my ex-boyfriend

Saying "Hi!" in as many languages I know What It Means To Be A High-Value Woman

Something that's non-negotiable for me is hopeless romantics

Teach me something about staying home

The best way to ask me out is by situationship

The dorkiest thing about me is brunch

The hallmark of a good relationship is pineapple on pizza 

The key to my heart is the objet petit a

The last time I cried happy tears was coquette 

The one thing I’d love to know about you is drinks!

The way to win me over is the person reading this

Therapy recently taught me small plates wine bar 

This year, I really want to fitness

Typical Sunday grow old together

Together, we could nothing

To me, relaxation is demure

Try to guess this about me my partner-in-crime

Two truths and a lie Live Laugh Love

Unusual skills authoritarian moralism

Weirdest gift i have given or received deleting this

We’ll get along if all else fails

We’re the same type of weird if @[Instagram username]

What if I told you that you don’t take yourself too seriously

What I order for the table feminist literature

When I need advice, I go to Elizabeth Holmes

Worst idea I’ve ever had everything

You should leave a comment if anything

You should *not* go out with me if good communication