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In between a place and candy
crush
is a narrow footpath that
ran
to a sham self-clapping presi-
shows more mounting
dent more
shame
than anything, so much really that a
stormy
calling meaning a bolster measured
six inches
a whole thing with that.
and
could it be
A virgin a whole virgin is judged
ass not candy catcher
made and so between
soft puta
curves
and
hard cógeme duro
outlines and real
ITY
seasons and more
spies look-
out glasses and a perfectly
candy-assed
unprecedented arrangement between old
soldier
ladies and mild
wall-less
colds there is no satin
sheet no
wood
pecker
shining.
Karren LaLonde Alenier is author of seven collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature and her latest collection The Anima of Paul Bowles. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents, and Poet Lore. Her opera Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On with composer William Banfield premiered by Encompass New Opera Theatre in New York City June 2005. For Scene4 Magazine she writes a monthly column about Gertrude Stein and the arts called “The Steiny Road to Operadom.”