The Smell of Good Mud by Lauren Zuniga

Author:Lauren Zuniga
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-935904-98-4
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

HOW TO STAY CELIBATE

Write lots of poems about sex. Hang them in your closet

like skinny jeans. Fantasize about the moment you can finally

slip into them.

Go on dates with men who drive Escalades. Who call you Shorty

and grin sideways as Lil’ Freak bangs through the speakers.

Plant the basil without a shovel. Hold the dirt in your fingers until

your mouth waters.

Practice your wink. Perfect your cuddle.

Brush up against the woman in the sea-foam dress,

allow your chest to coo.

Swallow your tea carefully. Watch the sunset recklessly.

Sing prayers into your orange kazoo.

Cancel the picnic, show up late, barely miss him each time.

Cook purple potato soup, drink wine at a table full of windmills.

Let their breeze give you all the energy you need.

Go on long walks with yourself.

Pack up all your pronouns and preferences; sell them in the yard sale.

People will buy anything.

Listen to a goddess play banjo to the tomato plants.

Let him hug you a little too long.

Climb the juniper tree with a stranger.

Steal bricks from demolished condominiums. Trim the wombshaped garden

with the rubble of the fortunate.

Learn the fine art of making stew. Serve it to hungry people.

Learn the fine art of making out. Practice with hungry people.

Type all letters to lovers backwards so they must look in the mirror when

they want to be close to you.

Give up the need to finish things. Knit one sock.

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