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POEM WRITTEN ON COLD MEDICATION
cristin o'keefe aptowicz
Sounded like a fun idea. The bell of my face
filled with the sleeping doves of illness, my tongue
fuzzy with down. The cold medicine didn’t really
clear anything out, as much as it sharpened the fog,
static still static, only clearer on a different channel.
Last night, we ate Thai food to help clear my head.
It didn’t work, and this morning, I shat fire.
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's work can be found in MCSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCIES, RATTLE, PANK, DECOMP, KILL AUTHOR, and CONDUIT, among others. She is the author of the non-fiction book WORDS IN YOUR FACE: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH TWENTY YEARS OF NEW YORK CITY POETRY SLAM (Soft Skull Press, 2008) as well as five books of poetry, most recently EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING (Write Bloody Press, 2010). When not on tour, she can be found loitering at NYC's Bowery Poetry Club, where she helps run the Tuesday night poetry slam series, NYC-Urbana, and dates the surly barkeep, poet Shappy Seasholtz. For more information, please visit her website: www.aptowicz.com. |
