Poets/Lucia Perillo

Lucia Perillo

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I saw a child set down her binder like a wall …

Lucia Perillo

1. …

Lucia Perillo

I quit med school when I found out the stiff they gave me …

Lucia Perillo

I couldn't have waited. By the time you return …

Lucia Perillo

Somebody left this white T-shirt …

Lucia Perillo

Word of it comes whispered by a slippery thin section …

Lucia Perillo

The famous Polish poet calls Simone de Beauvoir a Nazi hag …

Lucia Perillo

I live a small life, barely bigger than a speck, …

Lucia Perillo

Her daughter wrote back to say my friend had died …

Lucia Perillo

So today, yet another Guyanese will try to run the border …

Lucia Perillo

Achilles slays the man who slayed his friend, pierces the corpse …

Lucia Perillo

The professor stabbed his chest with his hands curled like forks …

Lucia Perillo

The old woman in the parking lot …

Lucia Perillo

Women who sleep on stones are like …

Lucia Perillo

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