ALTERNATE NAMES FOR SHAPESHIFTERS - After Danez Smith
Leela Smelser
1. Lovely like an anglerfish
2. Liar, not that you can prove it
3. Easier to hate than to love
4. Tangled necklaces that form a butterfly in silver and bronze
5. The gap between breaths, the creaking in a ribcage
6. and the sick feeling that nestles below the ribcage, just behind the diaphragm and
the scream that lives inside it
7. The platonic ideal of a
8. human like a scarecrow in the dark
9. Creature as distinct from a human being
10. Creature as synonymous with person