[分享] Kim Addonizio, The Women

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The Women

Kim Addonizio




We turn sixteen. We cannabis
and Vicodin. We Dexadrine.

We stolen scarves and dresses
disordered in boys’ cars

and falling down on dance floors.
We waste years and wishes

and finally marry
or wait for a king who does dishes.

We curse bosses.
We birth give and bring forth

and feel our unworth.
We divorce. We grow

uncool. We carpool.
We forgive those who lie down against us.

We lose June. We lose July.
In August we look in mirrors and want to die.

We hot flash. We worry cash.
Night cream lotus jewel and bicep curl

we try. We buy high heels.
We lunch. We find lumps.

We put our feet in the stirrups
and our lives in the hands

and our hearts to the wheel
which grinds us,

and so
over time

we polish to a hard shine
and we divine.





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