“… I Heard Someone Call Women’s Shoes Wearable Vaginas”
by Kate Peper

—Jeanne Wagner

If shoes are to vaginas, what are purses?
When someone stole my purse, I followed
the trail of tell-tale junk to a stairwell,
the empty bag blending in with the debris.

An insane woman sat next to me on the bus.
Her hair one long, turd-colored mat. She rummaged
in her loose-fitting sleeves to whip out fruit like a magician.
Are sleeves another kind of throat waiting to speak?

Every shoe I own winds up stained and holy.
Every purse I own winds up too full, its well, bottomless.

If women waited a week to get their hair washed
and “set,” it’d be enough time for a spider to lay
an egg sack deep under her hairnet crust.
I know this because someone told me she saw baby spiders
coming out of a woman’s hairdo on the bus.

The empty purse is a stand-in for a womb.
Slippers are the vaginas of old women.
Flip-flops are the souls of children never born.
Stilettos are the moment your heart is pierced
by the knowing you will die alone.

Kate Peper

“I have a tendency to write about ugly topics. I guess I’ve always loved imagining what it’s like to be someone or something that’s considered weird or just plain awful. When I send these poems out, no one seems to know what to do with them. Is that rebellious enough? I hope so.”

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Weekly Update #239

Hello Readers.

One problem about living in the South is the “Yellow Plague.” For those of you who don’t live in the South, I’m referring to pine pollen, and most people in the South blame it for allergies and sinus infections in the spring. Because of the “Yellow Plague,” my sinuses are playing havoc with me.

In this drained state, I focused more on revisions rather than creating.

I finished my initial round of revisions to “Stains” and it is ready for a read through.

After completing the revision to “Stains,” I started reviewing “Dear Fate, Why Must I Choose,” and “After A Ghostly Millennium, I Am Heard.” I’ve only started the review process, but it is keeping me busy.

Finally, I pulled out an old project I started a few years ago and set aside. “The Bizarre Case of Jeffry Gobbler” is my attempt at a police detective-mystery and is one of the few stories my youngest is interested in me finishing. Hopefully, I can make a good push and get the first draft done.

That is it for this week, take care everyone.

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