Upstart 1996
Let's workshop this poem about a young woman's cramped and unremarkable New York City bathroom, set against the backdrop of her aspirations for stardom.
Upstart 1996
The exotic presence of the young stardom-dreamer in tights
black, Jean-Patou perfumed and smoky eyes swooping wide
as queens, is only augmented by the banality—the animality—
of the bathroom of her NYC studio, one porthole to a train:
the crooked mirror, toothpaste-splattered, too small for both
shoulders; a cast-iron pipe groaning through dirt-grout tiles
cracked; a Bic razor, a roach trap, under a radiator multicoated
in chipped paint; the discharge panties; the Duane Reade bag. This poem is unpublished
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