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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2017-09-27 12:28 pm

Poem #27: What Do Women Want?

I ran across this one while reading random poetry and I like it. A lot!

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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.


~~ Kim Addonizio
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[personal profile] la_samtyr 2017-09-28 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
This is really great! :)
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[personal profile] erulissedances 2017-09-28 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm usually not that fond of poetry, but this one I absolutely LOVED.

- Erulisse (one L)