I Like My Strong Thighs
I like my strong thighs
When I model them for myself
Sitting down, in front of the
teevee, enjoying the pulse of banal
comedy
It makes me feel ready.
A constant low charge.
Clea Duvall, heroine of my lesbian youth,
now plays all the lesbians on teevee
Nice, intense white lesbians
“You are
only as dumb
as your horse-faced
friend
I’m sorry
Your horse-faced
friend is beautiful”
I want some things
over and over again
Gina Abelkop is the author of the poetry collections I Eat Cannibals (co.im.press 2014) and Darling Beastlettes (Apostrophe Books 2012). She lives in Athens, GA, where she runs the DIY feminist press Birds of Lace.
