God I Really feel Fashionable Tonight: Poems from a Gal About City
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Poems of heartbreak and intercourse, self-care and self-critique, city adventures and love on the highway from the millennial quarantine queen and comedy sensation.
in L.A. we acquired bare and swam within the ocean
we ate cured meats and carrots
& sat at the back of a purple pickup truck
like we had been in a movie the place two previous mates battle
& wrestle their means right into a hug
heave-sobbing because the mud settles
I wish to be well-known for being the primary individual
who by no means feels dangerous once more
In these brief, charming lyrics, Catherine Cohen, the one-woman stand-up chanteuse who electrified the downtown NYC comedy scene in her white go-go boots, and who has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since earlier than Instagram was a factor, particulars her life on the prowl along with her beaded bag; she ponders guys who name you “dude” after intercourse, real love through the pandemic, and English-major desires. “I want I had been good as an alternative of on my cellphone,” Cat Cohen confides; “heartbreak, / when it comes, and it’ll come / is all the time new.” A Dorothy Parker for our time, a Starbucks philosophe with no primary-care physician, she’s a welcome new breed of everywoman–a larger-than-life greatest good friend, who will say all of the outrageous issues we expect however by no means say out loud ourselves.
in L.A. we acquired bare and swam within the ocean
we ate cured meats and carrots
& sat at the back of a purple pickup truck
like we had been in a movie the place two previous mates battle
& wrestle their means right into a hug
heave-sobbing because the mud settles
I wish to be well-known for being the primary individual
who by no means feels dangerous once more
In these brief, charming lyrics, Catherine Cohen, the one-woman stand-up chanteuse who electrified the downtown NYC comedy scene in her white go-go boots, and who has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since earlier than Instagram was a factor, particulars her life on the prowl along with her beaded bag; she ponders guys who name you “dude” after intercourse, real love through the pandemic, and English-major desires. “I want I had been good as an alternative of on my cellphone,” Cat Cohen confides; “heartbreak, / when it comes, and it’ll come / is all the time new.” A Dorothy Parker for our time, a Starbucks philosophe with no primary-care physician, she’s a welcome new breed of everywoman–a larger-than-life greatest good friend, who will say all of the outrageous issues we expect however by no means say out loud ourselves.
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