Do you still love me, mom?
I killed your daughter,
slaughtered and draped in pink,
wearing those pigtails you loved
and those dresses you thought shaped her physique.
Hollow shell
echoes a knock.
I desperately want out
of this cage of iron and bone,
of velvet flesh draped for a stage,
a false performance of someone
I am not.
Fearful lusted fingers
rip at delicate skin
shred apart this certificate which
damned me at birth.
Fuck the Queen
you thought ruled this land
for this King
shall rise
once she is
dead.
Case Jaq Jefcoat
Case Jaq Jefcoat is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi. They are a student of English Licensure with a focus in Creative Writing. They have been writing prose and drama since 2014 and recently began writing poetry in 2018. Their prior published work includes a literary essay on Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie from the 2017 Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association’s competition and a short fiction story titled Escape from the William Faulkner Literary Competition in 2014. Their email contact is casey.jefcoat@usm.edu.