Steff Juniper Mendolia
they/them
To find some of their sound art check out https://quivering.bandcamp.com/ and to read their mad and disability studies publications https://yorku.academia.edu/StefaniaMendolia
Find them on Insta @mx.steffania
Giallo (2021) by Steff Juniper Mendolia
canary yellow plastic
spirals swirled by Turini women’s hands
fixed in the unmistakable scent of camphor
churning out skeletal celluloid suits
writing utensils for rich men memos
Senora sweats through her linens
to ease
Her children’s hunger
pouring
polenta
for
days
in a city gone silent from
Consumption
On the other side of the world
the pen her painstaking body-borned
sells for thirteen thousand dollars
By a man in a bowtie
Glistening under violent florescent lights
the temporary limerence
of commodity fetishism
a predilection of
high fashion cannibals
bleached white veiny stubby hands signing
Limitless cheques
cash-filled loneliness
uncomforted by the
poverty of soul
scribbling prescriptions
for Lexapro
to numb the rich
