There’s a week left in national poetry month! In addition to my project with Gina Abelkop and Birds of Lace, 30xLace, I’ve decided to celebrate by selling my book of poems, PRETTY TILT, for $10 plus shipping and handling. Email me at carolineammurphy @ gmail if you’d like to buy it.
via one of my poetry mentors, Sheila Black:
CALLING all writers with physical disabilities:
If you are such a writer or know a writer who might be interested in this, PLEASE SHARE. In 2011, I co-edited Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, with Mike Northen and Jennifer…
by Carrie Murphy
She’s a Scorpio
so she brushes
her bangs over her eyes
because that’s mystery.
I have an A-cup
so I look like
a tomboy.
If you’re fat
& you lean over
your bellybutton grows
into a slit.
If you pee after sex,
you won’t get pregnant.
Smart girls go home
& bad girls go to bed.
Nice guys finish last
but really, they just
finish. Just the tip &
you’re bowlegged on the
way to the bathroom.
Everyone knows
that. Everyone
knows.
march 12, 2004: my heart breaking a couple more small times but it being ok
