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TWO POEMS
by Lina ramona Vitkauskas

The Most Girl Part of You
for Amy Hempl

We are in our wrists, the swollen dramas
of what we've steamed from our pores
and our magazines and our better graces
and we have not taken responsibility for being
the last stupid pussy standing in the middle
of the linoleum as the last dance pulls away from view.

It is this tango we face in our palms-
our pathetic dissolved postures,
our fallible wisps,
our glandular reverberations,
our tapestry toes.
The honeyed catacomb melting
in her own viscosity, straddling between
Tallulah/Josephine and Ophelia/Desdemona

Therein this lies the most girl part of you,
the last tittering jaybird on a vine,
that last lonely stray away from Miss Hester Prynne's route.
Here's my stab that pins herself the "A" for "Anthropomorphic"
and ends last dance with a lilting wrist snap.



TODAY: A DEMONSTRATION: GRAPES

Toothpicks all plunged into the thick skin of a seedless-
flesh pierced before the naked eye.
The melancholy 70's anthem mourns
An inevitable, final destination:
popped into the tiny, puckered mouth
of the Chinese wife.

"I'm not in love"

Flourescent cannibalism-
We are all in the ripe reality
Of fruit demonstrations.

As lips
join lips
upon narrow
spears.