Doing Drag For You

By Jackie Sabbagh

By you I mean me.
I don’t know how to block an eyebrow, my gaffe itches,
no one remembers Duffy, why am I wearing
a yellow tartan three-piece for a strip mall.
Everyone is getting ready in the falafel restaurant
they let us use for a dressing room. Local customers
complain of glitter in the kibbeh.
I have wanted to kill myself for eighteen years
and now I’m stuffing my bra. I’ll do this for two more
and then we’ll have the talk I’ve been putting off.

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About Jackie Sabbagh

Sabbagh is a writer and comic living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with her MFA from the University of Florida. Her writing is published or forthcoming in journals such as Passages North, Bennington Review, Nashville Review, The Louisville Review, SOFTBLOW, and RUST + MOTH.

Twitter: @jackies_backie

Instagram: @jackie__sabbagh