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Misogynisitic Etymology                              (or More Trazedone, Please)

2/28/2015

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I. Strumpet

There are bats in my belfry, she states too calmly, they told me so.




Sheer wings, cocktail stirrer bones—light as lint—her head’s

In the pantyhose aisle at Target. Not enough nylon to cover 

All those spider veins, stretch marks, cottage cheese. 


The shock machine ran out of shocks; ice picks are old-timey

But Earth keeps spinning on its wimpy axis

Turtle-backed, or flat as flat can be

Sun/Moon are cutthroat, shit-kicking competitors.



II. Jezebel

I never had a phantom limb, she pines, though I wish I had something to miss.


There’s onion meat under her nails; she’s been

Peeling again: little globes, big as worlds, with sexy slick exteriors

Shopping malls got nothing but bras with sequins on their straps; drats!


You can dig a hole to China

Or follow the bugs burrowing there

It’s real quiet in the center of the Earth

Your heartbeat echoes in your ears and you can taste the blood.



III. Harpy

Mom’d pick it out at rotting, she remembers, or just let it sink on in.



The lipstick on her tooth glints in satisfaction—always Wet N Wild, 

Pocketed at Eckerd Drugs: windows usually boarded in hurricane season

Storms with lady-names are the most murderous, worse even than those named after saints.


It’s quiet after lights out

Our circadian rhythms are s’posed to match the sun’s

If you can’t sleep you can’t dream and if you can’t dream you're stuck in this

Scratchy sheet/plastic fork/piss stink clink; more Trazodone, please.

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Mommy
2/28/2015 11:31:16 pm

Brilliant. My heart craves your lovely words. Please give me more and more and then some more. Without them, my heart will stop beating. I will stop breathing. So you must write... To save my life.

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