YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL YOUR LIFE
29.05.15
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.