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| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ISSUE #14 $O.OO |
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| July 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** Lisa LaTourette-Pershan: is a 28 year old poet and fiction writer. Her poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in remark., WORDs DANCE, The Moonwort Review, Warm Angel Whiskey, The Ragged EDGE, Spent Meat and others. She's been writing since she was a kid and has only recently had some success in placing her poems and stories. She lives as a beach rat on the Jersey shore with her musician husband and their many cats." |
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| OLD WOMAN |
| by Lisa LaTourette-Pershan |
| I see her when I'm walking to my car, being pushed by a bored & indifferent nurse with Broadway baby eyes and marked meaty flesh; She's in a smooth metal wheelchair, glinting & winking in the sun, her jaw hangs slack like a dead bird, flower petal paper skin wrinkled as a walnut, holding the memories of vibrant-eyed youth and first love within its many folds & creases; Her hands, cool and religious in her lap, and I see the way her pale lips lift into a smile when the breeze ruffles her hair, and I know she sees me & wonders at the unfairness of old age & the curious melancholy of youth. |