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| Luke Perry, who became a household name playing Dylan McKay in the 1990s TV series Beverly Hills 90210 suffered a stroke and died on March 4. |
how many girls
are writing sad poems
for dylan
as we speak maybe
not girls
maybe just
women
who have eye cream
and hard jobs
i was a brenda but
you broke my heart with kelly
and i cried
in my old cutoffs
on the couch in our old house
and i forgot
until just now
what we had meant
when we were young
when we were going to change
the world
but now
i drop my kid at school
i see my face
slipping away in the rear window
and i think
of surfer boys
who would have loved all us cold girls
in the right way
if they were real
if we had let them
if the things we were
were ever
good enough
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California's Central Valley, and co-edits One Sentence Poems. Her chapbooks, Various Lies, Lion Hunt, and Water Weight are available from Finishing Line Press, Plan B Press, and Right Hand Pointing (for free!) respectively.