Deborah was a Catholic girl,she held out to the bitter end.Carla
was a different type,she's the one who put it in.Mary was a
black girl,and I was afraid of a girl like that.Susan painted
pictures sitting downlike the Buddhists sat.Reno was an aimless
girl,a geographic memory.Cathy was a Jesus-freak,she liked that
kind of misery.Vicky had this special wayof turning sex into a
song.Camella couldn't sing,kept the beat and kept it
strong.Xylla was an archetype,the voodoo queen the queen of
rap.Joan thought men were second bestto masturbating in the
bath.Sherri was a feminist,she really had that gift of
gab.Kathleen's point of view was this:take whatever you can
grab.Seattle was another girlwho left her mark upon the map.Karen
liked to tie me up,and left me hanging by a strap.Jeannie had
this nightclub walkthat made grown men feel underage.Mary Ellen
who had a sonsaid "I must go," but finally stayed.Gloria the
last taboowas shattered by her tongue one night.Mimi brought the
taboo backand held it up before the light.Marilyn who knew no
shame,was never ever satisfied.Julie came and went so fast,she
didn't even say good-bye.Well Rhonda had a house in
Venice,lived on brown rice and cocaine.Patty had a house in
Houston,shot cough syrup in her veins.Linda thought her life was
empty,filled it up with alcohol.Katherine was much too pretty,she
didn't do that shit at all.Uh-uh. Not Katherine.Pauline
thought that love was simple,turn it on and turn it
off.Jean-Marie was complicated,like some French
film-maker's plot.Gina was the perfect lady,always kept her
stockings straight.Jackie was a rich punk-rocker,silver spoon and
a paper plate.Sarah was a modern dancer,lean pristine
transparency.Janet wrote bad poetryin a crazy kind of
urgency.Tanya Turkish liked to fuckwhile wearing leather biker
boots.Brenda's strange obsessionwas for certain vegetables
and fruits.Roeena was an artist's daughter,the deeper image
shook her up.Dee-dee's mother left her father,took his money
and his truck.Debbie-Rae had no such problems,perfect Norman
Rockwell home.Nina sixteen had a baby,left her parents lived
alone.Bobbie joined a new-wave band,and changed her name to
Bobbie-sox.Eloise who played guitar,sang songs about whales and
cops.Terri didn't give a shit,just a nihilist.Ronnie was
much more my style,she wrote songs just like this.Jezebel went
forty daysdrinking nothing but Perrier.Dinah drove her
Chevroletinto the San Francisco bay.Judy came from
Ohio,she's a Scientologist.Pomerante here's a kiss,I
chose you to end this list.Eighty-eight lines about forty-four
women.
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