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I lingered in my lingerie
Recycled negligee
Awaiting laughter/slaughter

I said stop needling me
Sure as a suture
My future as furniture

I dyed my clit neon pink
And bleached my asshole
For my big bank interview









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Denise Duhamel is the author, most recently, of KA-CHING! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), TWO AND TWO (Pittsburgh, 2005), MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (Firewheel, 2005) and QUEEN FOR A DAY: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS (Pittsburgh, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami.