Adult Acne
By Elaine Kahn
In the damp sick
In the dough
In the chewed on chew of faces
of expensive car owner faces
chewed ons of the world:
I do not fetishize the truth
I poke around
Holding my bland sandwich
in my non-dominant hand, I think
what could be worse, I think
what could be as bad?
To feel the thing you want
to feel and not to care
To be a wet road
in the dark
I'd like to thank
Toyota, like to thank
my parents, esthetician
Ritalin Clonazepam internet TV weed
my beautiful dresses
Copyright Credit: Elaine Kahn, "Adult Acne" from Women in Public. Copyright © 2015 by Elaine Kahn. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.
Source: Womenin Public (City Lights Books, 2015)