Blood and Guts: Helena Lazaro
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February 10, 2006 12:49 PM

Her Cloud had a Mink Lining

This woman I knew in college
her mother died and left her
a life insurance windfall

She dropped out of her classes
left her drunk mechanic husband
and started a love affair
with some Native American
grocery boy

He would come be
her kept man
and they compared braids
to see whose was longest

She bought herself furs
and a diamond ring
so big and gaudy
that it looked fake

She wore
those furs and diamonds
to the same old dives
in Long Beach
looking every bit
as much a cheap whore
as she did
before the money

One night drunk
she told me
Cancer's not all bad.


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Comments

I really like this.

Posted by: boxen on February 10, 2006 01:27 PM

Me too. So vivid.

Posted by: Purdy on February 14, 2006 05:21 PM
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