Poetry, April 14

[jade_sabre]

Taxes are being stupid! To make up for it, a poem with attitude. A poem redbrunja posted earlier this month, the same day I discovered it. I used to have a Satine icon that would go perfectly with this, but apparently I lost her. Alas. Anyway, you can hear the poetess reading it here. From Kim Addonizo:




What Do Women Want?
I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.

Comments

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

huh, I believe this might have been written by one of my middle school students, or several of them maybe.

--checkers, who has spent the week asking 13-yr-olds to cover up that cleavage

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

congratulations, you have horrified the contents of the Sabre/Lovie household. Well, room. Close enough.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

And it's so unfair, too.

Ha, hope that didn't horrify anyone any more.

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

oh god this is basically what went through my head when i made the balthier pants

[beautyinsleep.livejournal.com]

Awesome poem. I like. :D