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***BIO*** Michele McDannold is 30ish and lives in small town, Illinois. She has a poem in the August issue of Remark.
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Ode to my Lips
by Michele McDannold
Let me introduce you to my
lips.
Bloated, red things they are
plastic, wet dipped in paint.
Lost in artistic rendition
of a perfect kiss.

I'll test your sense ability
to perceive
where men have wept at flesh,
(wrapped around) crooked.
morsels gobbled up like sweets;
then flung away with their semen,
their soldering irons on lax skin.

Oh, there were odes to the scoundrels.
Demands for explanations challenged
our justifications, trespassers.
Call me a tramp.
you'll love me-
a snake that calls itself a tongue.
Aug. 2006
66