lorde

call me
roach and presumptuous
nightmare on your white pillow
your itch to destroy
the indestructible
part of yourself (230-231)

Lorde, Audre. from "The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Roaches." The New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit: Broadside, 1974. 48. Reprinted in Moraga, Cherríe. "La Güera." Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Ed. Chris Bull. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. 225-233.