I sleep with the cat
when no one will have me.
When I can't give it away
for love or money--

I telephone the ones
who used to love me
.
Or try to lure the leery
into my pretty web

I'm loony as a June bride
Cold as a bruja's tit.
A pathetic bitch.
In short, an ordinary woman.
Grateful to excessiveness.

At the slightest tug of generousness,
I stick to the cyclop who takes me,
let me pee on the carpet
and keeps me fed.

Have you seen this woman?
I am considered harmless.
Armed and dangerous.
But only to me.

Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman.


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