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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