el foldybread ([info]itsmagnetic) wrote,
@ 2008-04-11 15:40:00
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Entry tags:new yorker, poem

poem

Auld Lang Syne.
Here's to the rock star with the crooked teeth,
the cellist, banker, mezzo bearing gifts,
the teacher with the flask in her jeans -
those girls who made us sweat and lick our lips.

To the jeune fille who broke my heart in France,
the tramp who warmed your lap and licked your ear,
the one who bought me shots at 2 a.m.
that night I tied your pink tie at the bar.

Who smoked.  Who locked you out.  Who kissed my eyes
then pulled my hair and left me for a boy.
The girl who bit my upper, inner thigh.
My raspy laugh when I first heard your voice

toasting through broken kisses sloppy drunk:
To women!  To abundance!  To enough!

- Emily Moore

from the New Yorker




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[info]nonsex_elijah
2008-04-11 11:45 pm UTC (link)
who kissed my eyes then pulled my hair and left me for a boy!


i rarely like the new yorker poems. you picked a good one. (i hope she's in the reading room ... you should tell her, there is no biting upper thighs in the reading room.)

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[info]chrismu
2008-04-12 11:29 am UTC (link)
To women! To abundance! To enough!

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[info]__feverdream
2008-04-14 08:34 am UTC (link)
ooh i like that.

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