Kercheval, Jesse Lee

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The Greed of Wanting Children

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Volume 28
Issue 2 Summer/Fall Article 18
1998
The Greed of Wanting Children
Jesse Lee Kercheval
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Kercheval, Jesse Lee. "The Greed of Wanting Children." The Iowa Review 28.2 (1998): 44-44. Web.
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Jesse Lee Kercheval 
The Greed of Wanting Children 
I can't have, makes me cry with hunger, 
eat only sweets and bitter Baker's chocolate, 
nibble at my bed. Last night I dreamed of peruses, 
not sex, not men, just phaUuses, stalagmites rising 
from a dark cave floor. Their surfaces as smooth 
to touch as the penises of men I've known but 
rather chill and cruel. Outside, Lake Michigan 
slaps the white rock shore. This is what I want: 
to be a bone, to sink Hke salvage to the bottom, 
to see no more horizon, only water, only water. 
44 
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