Adult Acne
By Elaine Kahn
In the damp sick
In the dough
In the chewed on chew of faces
of expensive car owner faces
chewed ons of the world:
I do not fetishize the truth
I poke around
Holding my bland sandwich
in my non-dominant hand, I think
what could be worse, I think
what could be as bad?
To feel the thing you want
to feel and not to care
To be a wet road
in the dark
I'd like to thank
Toyota, like to thank
my parents, esthetician
Ritalin Clonazepam internet TV weed
my beautiful dresses
Elaine Kahn, "Adult Acne" from Women in Public. Copyright © 2015 by Elaine Kahn. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.
Source:
Womenin Public
(City Lights Books, 2015)
