Lifshin, Lyn

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HE SAYS YOU KNOW IF YOU DON’T GO TO152the right school come from the right family like me I mean my ex went to Wellesley her mother's mother went there and her mother's mother's mother it's not the same if you go to some podunk school do you think Jeez your hair is lovely I'm rough around the edgesTHE HOTEL LIFSHINis rejecting thos who rejected her Even that first time words mailed down town Albany and flung back by return mail Now that editor expects soft pillows of her skin an open reception no limit to space as if she couldn't also discriminateDAMAGED MADONNAa little thread bare a little crazy like her house she's a one of a kind beautiful not practical falling apartMADONNA OF THE MANUSCRIPTSthey circle her bed like students outside her office before 6 am following her to the bath room swooping in to her scrambled eggs Like lovers they invade time and space promise more than they can deliverMADONNA WITH THE MOTHERwho can’t see can't recognize cars or daughters even in a line of younger dancers where she's the only one in mid night tights says' she danced bestMADONNA OF THE LOVE LORNmen are like a bus they’re out there if you miss one there's always anotherMADONNA OF THE PERFORMANCEwhat had been ordinary's trans formed wild she stuns and amazes like the woman yesterday walking in Chicago who suddenly burst into flame

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