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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 J. Gay received her Bachelor's from the College of Santa Fe and her Master's from Stonecoast. She lives in New Mexico with her husband and son. My Tongue Is a thief, stealing the squeal of fluorescent lights, the hiss of cars on wet streets, the crack of a face on linoleum. My tongue has illicit affairs with the nose and ears. It plays Dionne Warwick records while mixing up an Old Fashioned. It whispers lullabies to the throbbing and blistered tonsils dripping with sickness. Is a hypocrite. Morality is for the brain and heart and it doesn’t have time to hold sweaty, pubescent hands. It is a flapping wound wet and wide. My tongue begs for sweet lullabies from you, you the blistered, you the throbbing, you the swollen throng. |