How to merchandise a woman & how to get revenge
Dorothy Lune
Content Warnings: mention of sex, gun violence, and death
(I have
a spectacular
idea). Portraits are
taken or painted after all.
Movie scene: cheeky line, red
lip, sex kitten voice, blondie. Movie
still: wind blowing a dress up, delicious wind,
whistling at her undies. I am a torch beaming &
clarifying, all seeing angel—after all. The Big Dogs get tetchy when they're without a woman to rent out like a room—I rise from mud after all, as a lotus should. I am Norma turned Medusa after all. I am pebble hearted & steel-handed after all. I lure him into my room with my gentle wind of an act after all. I drag bullets like they're planets that echo enormously down the hallway after all. I shoot--
a big dog is dead, he's dead now after all.
a spectacular
idea). Portraits are
taken or painted after all.
Movie scene: cheeky line, red
lip, sex kitten voice, blondie. Movie
still: wind blowing a dress up, delicious wind,
whistling at her undies. I am a torch beaming &
clarifying, all seeing angel—after all. The Big Dogs get tetchy when they're without a woman to rent out like a room—I rise from mud after all, as a lotus should. I am Norma turned Medusa after all. I am pebble hearted & steel-handed after all. I lure him into my room with my gentle wind of an act after all. I drag bullets like they're planets that echo enormously down the hallway after all. I shoot--
a big dog is dead, he's dead now after all.
Dorothy Lune is a Yorta Yorta poet, born in Australia. Her work has appeared in Pinhole Poetry & more. She is compiling a manuscript & can be found online @dorothylune.