Administrative Violence - Lauren Bousfield

Where are you when you dream?

What does safety look like for you?

Watching your life slowly unravel

And the years of poverty finally clench in

How are you going to get out of this?

Down Catalina

Looking at the place I had so many epiphanies and a part of me died screaming

I’m sorry on the lawn

Always in crisis

Sung in polari

Swing the trauma like an analogy

Something intimate

Something worth hiding

It’s a small world after all administrative violence

Administrative violence

Another empty woman in me

Terms of service and another form of violence