Girl from prison city
locks her
doors don't go
Eastside
after dark
deadbolts
click in slide
out asks
Daddy for
mace honey
that's illegal
keychain
pepperspray
even West
turns rocks
over like words
hide-a-key
forget you
saw one eye
over her
shudder wants
a gun but
it's so unfem
Rink's sells
pink pistols
now license
alarm set
locks her
doors even in
drive East
side mural
chipped smirks
at television
renting out
old prison
mocked $40
Halloween
admission
distrusts eyes
both sides
even blue
dawn looks
barbed
X0XO, Helen Adam
I l0ve my l ve with a capital X
at the top of an hour: beginning
equals ending and alphabetic
scrambling
too many letters, not enough words
hailstones from a keystroke storm
unzip these steady
lips
L0ve is full of h les:
the difference between
O and 0 just a matter of width
the letter starved or squeezed
an Opening becomes a hole
a bracelet a c0llar
a m uth to feed
© Copryright 2010 Julia Drauden
