Societal Constructs

Quote	Poem
“New statue. / In a drafty museum, your nakedness / Shadows our safety”	Morning Song
“One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral / In my Victorian nightgown”	Morning Song
“Are you our sort of a person?”	The Applicant
“Do you wear / A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, / A brace or a hook, / Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch, / Stitches to show something’s missing?”	The Applicant
“My boy, it’s your last resort.//Will you marry it, marry it, marry it”	The Applicant
It’s the theatrical//Comeback in broad day / To the same place, the same face, the same brute / Amused shout: / ‘A miracle!’ / That knocks me out”	Ladt Lazarus
“I watched my teaset, my bureaus of linen, my books / Sink out of sight, and the water went over my head. / I am a nun now, I have never been so pure”	Tulips
“Orange lollies on silver sticks”	The Munich Mannequins
“In the hotels / Hands will be opening doors and setting / Down shoes for a polish of carbon//Into which broad toes will go tomorrow”	The Munich Mannequins

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