Galatea, I stay up late
looking for synonyms in my digital thesaurus,
synonyms for words like “hilarity” and “gallantry.”
You were very beautiful.
Sometimes I forget prehistory –
that there were baubles and art before your myths.
I have a postcard of Pygmalion kneeling at your feet,
you are part stone and I wonder
what thought goddesses put into common sense.
I bought the card in New York City
where many girls forget prehistory –
all caught in baubles and art.
I conclude that goddesses put very little thought into common sense,
and very much thought into their likenesses.
The Great Poetic Testing of Hypotheses. It's a big red bow of ticker tape. You can see humanity in its eyes as you approach it with your overlarge scissors at the grand reopening of "I was just taking a personal call in a goddamn phone booth and the motherfucker just shot me in the head." In some weeks and months and days you will find that, indeed, you are dead. I am Jess. I am an English Creative Writing Student at the University of Iowa. Ask me stuff. Be interested, be interesting.
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