I am plasticine-adolescent, moulded by every man who speaks, pushes, touches, gazes. My father is dying, but he refuses to die, and when he dies, I refuse to let him die. His penis has already been chopped off, a void created in place of an absence. Psychoanalysis teaches me that the phallus is not the penis. Frantz Fanon teaches me that the black is genitality.

When is the last time you saw your father naked? Up until about a month ago, I was right there with you. If pressed, I supposed I would have answered something like you, which is:. Why are you asking anyway? I can hardly draw my own from memory.

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