FANZINE

We do what we can

An upscale Irish restaurant

It’s what there was

I wore a tight dress

Can I say this

I’m a dignified woman

Hitch to loneliness

Passing lane in fog

I want to throw out

Everything and live

Off of your body

Carry the small ugly

World of my dreams

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_{Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including FRANCES, AIRPORT, BAGUETTE, and THE NEW PLANET. THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE, her first full-length collection, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America in 2012. Her second collection, SORROW ARROW, was published in 2014 by Octopus Books and won the Oregon Book Award in 2015.}