Tasha
Cunning Green Girls

Ah! Finally he noticed the
    green girl
immediately he threw her into
one of his poems (which read
like newspaper articles)
with white roses, no less
men are slow to read between
the lines of cunning women
yet they all want one

I see you in your black
coat on the train
runaway statistics
flashing in your eyes
nose alert for the
smell of salt and
green

it was all much more exciting
when you went through your
black period
powerful, straight, uncompromising
like the NYC skyscrapers
But green?

you can't pull her head
back by her hair and say
beg me
in green..

there is a salad dressing
called Green Goddess
 

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