Category: Southern Living
Poof* Take MY water

Paris in the rain
a woman’s life
is too tenuous
delicate
billowy
spider web
close call on I-75
in preterm labor
on the way to the
Paris airport
in the rain
fragile
beautiful
precious
sacrosanct
finite
for bad friends
bad family
bad coffee
bad shoes
bad mattresses
bad jobs
bad husbands
bad debt
and bad dick
learn this by 30 for maximum
enjoyment
future
female
conquerors
of a dying planet
when the oxycodone and meth crops fail in kentucky
the country folk flock
across the ohio river into cincinnati
to go to the open air opioid market
people once came to the queen city from the south
to get factory jobs that no longer exist
they were called briar hoppers
we don’t have a name for these new immigrants
other than marginalized, homeless, inmate, and DOA’s
but they’re good at making change
a five dollar bill on the streets of this town
will turn into a baggy of heroin
faster than it will turn
to singles
devil an egg
my stomach growls
for Kentucky cookin’
church pot lucks of the past
made by old pin curled women
in floral dresses
no longer living
laid out
upon Christian hobbled tables
beneath a giant oak tree
no longer standing
baked beans
macaroni salad
fried chicken
pineapple upside down cake
deviled eggs
damned fine eatin’
and believe you me
no one
can devil an egg
like a Baptist