So I seem to recall everyone was gushing about Lisa Bradley's "we come together we fall apart" in the Stone Telling queer issue a while back but I didn't actually read it until today because my Internet TBR pile is truly enormous and I am months behind on almost everything unless it was written by someone I've friended somewhere. And even then, I'm often behind.

Anyway, now that I've dragged my late-adopter butt to the party, I have to say it's a really well-done poem. With beautiful language, complex emotions, &c, and the "multiplicity of self" aspect struck a chord with me that I don't want to talk about right now.

But.

I couldn't help but notice that the reason the whole family falls apart (and a lady gets strangled?!) is because this one guy comes out as asexual to his wife. That is the trigger point that sets all the other bad things in motion, mainly because his wife goes into a spiral of "OH NOES THIS IS THE MOST TERRIBLE THING and now I must CHEAT ON HIM RIGHT AWAY." No one calls her on this at any subsequent point.

And I mean, it would take an actual asexual person (probably with a degree in poetry or something) to do a proper analysis of what is going on here, but I can't be the only person who is just a little bit uncomfortable with it.