One Of My Daily Poems, A Task Assigned By My Creative Writing Professor

One of my daily poems, a task assigned by my creative writing professor

aroallos: you are not gross or impure.

alloaces: you are not “waiting for the right person”.

aroaces: you are not unfeeling.

angled aspecs and oriented aroaces: your love is valid.

aplatonic and aqueerplatonic people: you are normal.

demi and greyspec folks: you are not “just like everyone else”.

abro, aceflux, and aroflux people: you are not “indecisive”.

hetero aspecs: you are part of the community.

sex/romance positive aspecs and hypersexual aspecs: you are not pretending to be aspec.

sex/romance indifferent people: you are deserving of respect.

sex/romance repulsed people, both allo and aspec: you are not broken.

aspecs who use microlabels I have not included above: you exist.

aspecs: you are here. you are queer. you are deserving of whatever kind of love you want to receive.

Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles // Ryan O'Connell // Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray // Beau Taplin, "Platonic" // Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life // Euripides, Heracles (trans. Anne Carson) // Fredrik Backman, Us Against You // Graffiti from Pompeii // @kigiom // @lucidloving

[Requested by @vampire-reanimator]

excerpt from a poem i'm writing

Not platonic, not romantic, but a secret third thing (the tragedy of a friendship so colored by romance)