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“The manses were aplenty on an orange-mask app & resigning in was the …”
Quueird; adjective: (of people) without derogation or depreciation, from ‘queer’ and ‘weird’.
Manses; plural noun: (informal)¬¬ A permeable collection of simultaneous male lovers.
This patchworked series of poetic revelations interweave the conflated voices of; self and other, to navigate experiences facilitated by a certain so-called ‘orange-mask app’.
Straddling a network of masculine sexualities, this text bombards with responses to the performance of this virtual space, where in one moment, “the nearest 300 pariahs would rotate in shelves of 3” and in another, “men w/ long arm hairs attract followers like dirty bath water”.
Read on as one mans declares “I put my heart through such an unhealthy revolving door of fascinations […] ‘ ‘cause it might not be HIV Awareness Week anymore but I’ve just been advised to take PrEP for the first time”.
Guy A. Forster-Pearce 