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MIPOesias Magazine ~  ISSN 1543-6063 Volume 15 ~ January to March 2004

artist Rene Andersson

You Be the Girl
by Deirdre Dore

Blast that karaoke blood song
shroud the crocuses, 
rustle up dead lilacs

to fax to your lover’s mother
while you bleed on the Long Island
Railroad, all the way to Jamaica,
nextstopdon’task.

I say, I’ll rub your neck while we watch
two bantam weights 
beat the shit out of each other.

Listening? It’s a bright hole.
This time you be the girl.

poem copyright © deirdre dore 2004. all rights reserved.

poem copyright © robert bohm 2004. all rights reserved.

Born & raised in NY, educated in Boston, Deirdre called on a flurry of places, from Berkeley to Marrakesh before she finally landed in BC. She lives there still, near a forest, by a river with her family & critters & continues her practice of writing.

Bio Notes
Click here to read Thirteen Scraps by Robert Bohm.