Poets/Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood

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On the real azalea path we rode. …

Patricia Lockwood

The government spent a Patricia on me, …

Patricia Lockwood

I was so happy in the gem room. …

Patricia Lockwood

The perfect ring I had married myself with …

Patricia Lockwood

Of all living monuments has the fewest …

Patricia Lockwood

Must be entered through the sharpener every Sunday, …

Patricia Lockwood

How many sets of her parents are dead. How many times over is she an orphan. A plane, a crosswalk, a Boer war. A childbirth, of course, her childbirth. When she, Shirley Temple, came out of her mother, plump even at her corners like a bag of goldfish, and one pinhole just one pinhole necessary. Shirley Temple, cry for us, and Shirley Temple cried. The first word of no baby is “Hello,” how strange. The baby believes, “I was here before you, learning to wave just …

Patricia Lockwood

I was born as a woman, I talk you to death, …

Patricia Lockwood

Is worth any number of old ladies. …

Patricia Lockwood

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