The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 5/24/2009)

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Poem in Which I Am My Own Porn Star

Most days I just want to live
in a Crate & Barrel catalog.
I can't stop watching Law & Order.

I'm losing heat and you aren't here
to absorb it. The free daily
calls this recycling program "ineffective."

You said erection and I felt health class,
CPR dummy. You took the free condoms.
I’m Artificial Annie.

There's no lifeguard on duty.
Dear High School Reunion,
Dear Pedestal Effect—

I spend a lot of time trying
to increase the space between my pinky
toe and the rest of my foot.

I am my own alien,
my own porn star.
Spectacular, stunted.

What is Occam’s razor?
The best thing about a sandwich
is not the pickle next to it.

I am damaged but still quite good.

Brandi Homan

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Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, forthcoming from Shearsman Books in September, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. Homan earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago and her MA at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is originally from Marshalltown, Iowa, and is editor-in-chief of Switchback Books.


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