Boy - Denise Duhamel

[asthenos]

I run into my old boyfriend's new boyfriend
on Boylston Street and, as he talks, I fish around
in my handbag, my pockets, for something sharp
so I can stab him. He prattles insensitive circles:
how my old boyfriend is impossible, but I already know that.
I want to call him queer boy, a faggot: he keeps calling me "hun,"
twirling the fringe on my

Comments

[ilaughyou]

and i thought you wrote it!

[asthenos]

I'd love to have written something this viciously clever and fun. As far as the subject matter is concerned, however, I don't have the appropriate experience. :D

[ilaughyou]

for a moment i thought, you supposedly owning that experience, i have such a boring life. ho hum.

[asthenos]

I'm pretty sure my life's far more boring than yours. So don't worry. Hahaha!

[the_erotomanic]

nice. poor new boyfriend.

[asthenos]

Karma lang 'yan.

[bespoke_couture]

Eyeluvit. She actually writes bitingly funny and urbane poems. I remember her Barbie poems...XOXO (I'm sorry I just had to write that down. I've been turned! I've been reduced to reciting the Gossip Girl intro to myself the whole day.) :-)

[asthenos]

Yes, it was Razel who introduced me to her way back recently. (Hahaha!)

And reciting the GG intro to yourself? Exag. Magseselos na talaga sina Kieron.