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The City She Was
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5 (2 ratings)
Length: 79 pages33 minutes
- Publisher:
- University Press of Colorado
- Released:
- Nov 15, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781885635235
- Format:
- Book
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Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
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Start ReadingBook Information
The City She Was
Ratings:
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5 (2 ratings)
Length: 79 pages33 minutes
Description
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
- Publisher:
- University Press of Colorado
- Released:
- Nov 15, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781885635235
- Format:
- Book
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The City She Was - Carmen Giménez Smith
Acknowledgments
ONE
For About Five Minutes in the Aughts
I put up notice on the Internet where misspellers wrote the most compelling notes.
They wore industrial eyeglasses and ironic T-shirts and trucker hats
and often forgot their wallets. One taught me about science fiction porn
while we lay on his silk leopard-print sheets. After that, a Nugent
look-alike, then a mapmaker in Alaska and that old-timey
going-nowhere correspondence; I thought I’d tell our kids about our cute meet
over Thanksgiving in the new fifties. I watched films that made me feel old
because of choice feminism contradictions and wrote poems about
the city’s howling lunatics in technology and snark dialect compost.
And then, and then, and then. Met a lunatic on Craigslist.
Concerned about starts, I stuffed his inbox with amendments and bloated metonymy.
This happened for months. This happened while I healed from pneumonia,
from broken bones, from agoraphobia. Drinking beer gave me a panic, so whiskey.
Divorce ephemera, safe doors and pre-midlife. I collected fancy pens
and yeah, I’m working on an article about animé and Marxism.
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