By Rita Randazzo
Date: 1 September 1997

The Casual Cruelty of Young Women

She knows nothing yet
about dead babies
cellulite
root canal
lover in the ICU
silver anniversary.

He is someone to cut
her teeth on,
real only for her reflection
in his hot eyes,
quivering meat
to skewer and grill.

copyright 1997 by Rita Randazzo
(from my chapbook ms, "Fifty/50")



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