Claudia Rodriguez

(Soft yellow light center stage shining over bench. Bench is draped with a soft throw) Claudia enters stage right. She is wearing a black tank top, white tight shorts (aka booty shorts) lays down on the bench. BdSM audio and video footage begin playing at the same time. (Audio is playing and video footage of Nadine is projected on screen. Claudia begins simulating masturbation or actually doing it depending on how she is feeling that day. She occasionally looks up at the image of Nadine projected on the screen who also looks down on Claudia). To my butch scholar what is Butch aesthetic? Is it when you reflect what you see before you into words? If so then you have to talk about my big boobs. If so then you have to talk about my tight ass and how you salivate at the thought of your fingers sliding up and down your keyboard as you recreate me, separate me, turn me upside down and label me. ME-your idea! For you to relive every time you, she, I

Standing with my toes brushed by the shore so sure that I float in your subconscious tonight a night when the moon has cast it’s shadow upon earth- swallowed. I wish for a bottle long neck, green glass the color of algae extra protection on it’s journey. Una botella para embotellar estos versos mandarlos con esperanza de que lleguen a ti. Que atraviesen estas aguas del pacifico aguas frias, que entumecen hasta no topar con las arenas del atlantico. Versos que te recuerden de lo mucho que te echo de menos.

“Give you a reading? I will tell you something good.” the lady sitting outside the coffee house said to me as I passed by in a daze. Payday is not for another three days but I was so tempted to give her my last 5 bucks to hear something good. That’s what we all want, just to hear something good even though I know things will be the same, her message of hope was as fake as her powers to predict the future.