“You’re not a monster.” I said.
But I lied.
What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a bad thing to be. From the Latin root ‘monstrum’ -a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origin. Centaurs, griffon, satyr.
To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both a shelter and warning at once
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Little Dog, is a poet in his late 20s reflecting on his life as a gay man and immigrant. This book, written as a letter to his mother.
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