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Lenny and Lisa Have A Daughter Named Zoë

Poem submission by Kentiya Dyree

I heard she was beautiful. There is no accounting for taste, but I heard she was algebraically delectable. Hardly detestable. That girl is a wrecking ball. I heard she shook her hair behind her shoulders and wept to the moon. Wailed at it too…once when it was blue. I heard she held her near-perfect body hostage for Lent. She made it pay rent, ‘til it was spent. Hallelujah.

Lenny and Lisa have a daughter named Zoë.

I heard she was difficult. There is no geometry for taste, but I heard she was symmetrically divine. Completely refined. But that girl can unwind. I heard she beat the snow from her boots with the blade of her stiletto. Lost her rhythm and rhyme with her libretto: aceto-. I heard she was at her wit’s end. Death and all his friends dance around her grave again. Hallelujah.

Lenny and Lisa have a daughter named Zoë.

But they gave her to the light: quite bright white night. And they gave her to the night: trite blight right fright.

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