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City Girl
by Yolanda Coulaz
She reads cheap paperbacks
and bibles and takes them
at their word, wears black
and lives on caffeine,
cigarettes and stress.
Her nails are nubs;
cuticles ragged and raw;
hair, Midnight #36.
Her skin is pale
in sky scraper shadows,
and she is lean
for lack of transportation.
She eats soft pretzels
soaked in humidity,
seasoned with salt
and carbon monoxide,
searches for something
in subways and taverns,
and she doesn’t read
the funnies anymore.
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