You never make decisions that you later feel bad about.
You do your best when you can concentrate on one thing at a time.
When your employer explains how you can do better, you do not explain that you are doing your best.
You do your best when you are given multiple projects operating on several different deadlines.
You believe that cheddar is the finest cheese for macaroni and cheese.
You decide how hard to work at a job based on how much money you think you can get.
You do not want to die right now.
Your form is dangerously incorrect when you lift weights and you need a man to show you the proper way.
You are able to work well and calmly under pressure.
Your imagination is prey for the shudder of bicep under skin, for the punishment of a tree trunk against your throat.
You believe in the scintillation of one yellow sun into your eyes between buildings.
You believe that it is stealing to spend more time than allotted at lunch or on a break.
You believe that it is stealing to spend a few moments goofing off at the desk.
You believe that it is stealing to be a little octopus dawdling beneath the waves of the ocean.
You believe—wholeheartedly!—in the saxophone solo in Bruce Springsteen’s “Bobby Jean.”
You believe that your boss deserves your best performance.
You believe that your pussy does the same thing as anybody else’s.
You believe that you do not bring your personal problems to work with you.
first published in Peach Mag Season 3 Yearbook
Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection 'The People's Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling' (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Catapult, Electric Literature, and Autostraddle.