Girls with Insurance

I knew a real woman once.

We shared a love of rough, true freedom

and gritty, honest romance.

Honest romance, mind you.

Not that Hollywood, silver screen, sitcom horse-shit.

Put the fun back in funeral
—on a bumper sticker

Death's no laughing matter.

Unless you're watching
a Monty Python marathon at four in the morning and
the power goes off cuz there's a really big storm

I cut my hair in every hotel room
on the island, shave the back of my neck
until it feels clean, like a boy's.  I bend
to sweep the hair.  The rest washes down the drain.