Character Postcard (Sort Of!): Mechagirl
This month, y'all wanted to hear from the titular Mechagirl from The Melancholy of Mechagirl.
Well.
Trouble is.
I started writing the postcard in poem form, since, you know, it was a poem.
And then it kept going. And could never fit on a postcard. And is also now a full-on sequel to MoMG. Do poems have sequels? I don't know, but this one does. Ten whole-ass years after the poem came out originally. (And jesus, thank you, everyone, for caring about a tiny poem from a tiny zine a decade later. That is the dream poets no longer dare to dream.)
SO THIS MONTH YOU ALL GET A BRAND NEW POEM INSTEAD.
The first new poem I've written in years, actually.
Right here, published nowhere else, not even getting paid for it by some fancy semiprozine, just purely wrote it out of love and brainpaints and I guess apparently it wanted to exist immediately, no waiting.
I hope you like it--god DAMN it's been a long time since I wrote a poem! Perhaps it will slightly make up for being so late with content this month due to crushing deadlines.
Perhaps it will just make you smile.
That's all a girl ever wants.
Eeep! Let me know what you think!
Comments (18)
This is beautiful <3
It's beautiful! Thank you for not giving us a postcard! I hope you'll record a reading of this one, to go with your reading of the first part.
This is gorgeous, thank you so much.
That was sweet, and beautiful 💕
Oh, I needed that one today. So good. Love.
who would up their pledge for cat to write us twelve poems a year, should that be worth it to her with all on her plate? I miss your exquisite verse.
Superb
I love this so damn hard and bright.
How dare things be so relentlessly not turquoise
Everything MUST BE TURQUOISE. Or purple.
This is fascinating and wonderful (think the original meanings of those words) stuff. I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about what “interface” means, and how we build new routines in our heads to mate our machines to our minds, here you’ve answered the question of what happens when we are supposed to stop doing that, and can’t or won’t. Also a beautiful poem, aside from interpretation or analysis.
Amazing work, Cat! I love how ambiguous it is, the delineation between girl and machine, or even if there is what we would recognize as a "girl" left there, anymore I don't know if you know the video game "Overwatch," but the character of D.Va feels like this character type, but without the nuance you add... It's fun to read Mechagirl in her voice, so to speak
That is absolutely wonderful.
ohhh WOWWWWWwwwww :melts all purple:
my heart! oh my heart indeed! this is glorious! Thank you!
Omg 😍😍😍 I will sing a hymn of thanks to Oscar.
*Jeremy Piven voice* TEN YEARS, MAN! TEN!
oh she's so beautiful. oh my heart.