Spain + Cameroon

THE FIRST DAUGHTERS OF SPAIN
and some other people

THE FIRST LADY OF CAMEROON
and some other people.

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Asthmatic wheezing, Bloody bleedies, Crumpled up wad of tissue, Decongestant, Expectorant, Fantastical healing, Gobs, Hacking cough, Ignominious, Jibe, K-aatchoo, Lots of lemon, Menstrual terror, No booze no smokes no caffeine, Over it, Pustule, Quack doctor, Re-cooperate, Sinusitus, Turgid, Ute, Vacate, Whatever I'm sure, X-pose, Yuck, Z-pack.

Shopping List

Apples, Artichoke Hearts, Bananas, Balsamic Vinegar, Bike Battery, Butter, Capers, Celery, Cheese, Garlic, Midol, Milk, Mini Pizza, Paper Towels, Pickles, Raisin Bread, Razor-comb, Sage, Salad Greens, Sauerkraut, Seltzer, Shampoo, Tampons, Tomato Paste, Vegan Cutlets, Yogurt.

RED

Poisonous berries, mushrooms, frogs

Look but don’t touch

Touch but don’t taste.

So many shades of lipstick and

It’s never the right red.

Red signs and lights will stop your car.

Red capes enrage bulls and enrobe catholic cardinals

And spotting the kind that can fly is lucky.

Red is lucky in China

Red will not be quiet.

A reliable red backpack

A raspberry beret from the second-hand store.

Three shades of red stockings

Five favorite dresses, seven sweaters and

Too many pairs of sneakers in various states of decay.

Remember the “Red Shoes”:

When pretty redheaded Moira

Put them on she knew she

Had done something wrong.

“Lady in red is dancing with me.”

Mary of Scots and Elizabeth I

Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Clara Bow

Tilda Swinton, Annie Lennox, Tori Amos

Kate Bush, Kate Winslet,

Kate Hepburn, Cate Blanchett.

Bette Davis.

Cleopatra.

Mom.

Richard the Lionhearted, Jean-Paul Sarte

Vivaldi, Napoleon, Van Gogh and Joyce.

Lawrence, Lenin, Jefferson, Custer, Churchill

Robert Redford, Johnny Rotten

Lord Byron

David Bowie

And also, Dads beard.

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Abalone, Bushy bushy blonde hairdo's, Cat shit, Devotion, Effervescent, Forbidden black rice, Gobbledygook, Hush now don't speak, Indolent, Jet-lag, KMFDM, Losery, Maudlin piano solo cover of: "Every step you take/I'll be missin' U", Nebula, O, Painting, Quail eggs in a wicker basket, Run away with me, Striped sun-dress, Tomato and watermelon salad, U-boat, Very cold Riesling, Washing my face, X-axis, YES, Zelda Fitzgerald.

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PrincessPunkin, originally uploaded by brigidbrigid.

White

Popularized by virgins,
We've been told that the good guy wears it always.
Bleached bones and ligaments.

Sterilized plastic calipers before a gynecological exam,
and that which is most difficult to maintain in paper, cloth, and teeth.
Seasonally/regionally: Fox, owl, hare, goose, ptarmigan.

A naked dash and leap into
a frigid glacial pool, and the adrenaline rush
that follows after.

White hot lead, searing pain,
ecstasy, and some deaths.

Black

Black is wherever
all of what I just wrote went
when my computer crashed.
Black is the qualities of the gaps in my memory
made manifest.

Black is a Black-light Night
at a goth club and the Bitch
who throws me shade, and says to my face
that my "blacks don't match."

The inside of a barrel of crude oil.
Black is charred animal bones.
Black is lung cancer.

Black is the heavy velvet curtain
of a blessed dreamless sleep.
Black is the cloak of the apparition
that has been haunting the corner
of my room
for the last two nights.

Black is more of an assertion than a question.
Black is the high desert on a moonless night.
Black is what the light is like inside me.

Black patent leather.
Black enamel lacquer.
Shiny vinyl records.
Defensive nail polish.

Fallabc

Anger, Belligerent, Coughing fit, Delphi, Effeminate, Fabulous Honey, Gilgamesh, Honey-pot, Infamous, Jilted, Krazy-Kat, Limpid, Mesmer, Nascent, Ollie-ollie oxen free, Petulant, Queasy, Replete, Stupendous, Tally-Ho, Uppity, Vapid, Wooing, X-Box, Yonder, Zeppelin.

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