Two Poems
by Kate Carmody
trump wears shape-ups / 666pence none the richer
ivanka punctuate prose with ivanka one starts and one ends forever and ever amen eve and eve snaking along swimming in paradise sexy sister wives and the rest of us sandwiched between billionaire buns big daddy’s big mac gobsmacked snaking around like the russian river all the fine wine’s on fire orange sky for orange julius julius caesar’s got nothing on ivanka
Anniversary
Last night I passed a stone it took a week to travel through me from kidney to groin our one year anniversary a half a glass of Veuve & half a joint while playing Rummy Cube it had to come out but not before my dinner hugging porcelain then hardwood floor just leave me are you okay I’m not but I’m not going anywhere & neither is he & neither is it white plaster ceiling spinning splatter splayed on the floor I sit up & he hands me pills & water he pulls the couch out it radiates from side to groin I spread my legs Fuck nothing comes it burns & cuts I can’t remember he has to remind me I’ve never seen you like that before I say I have a high tolerance for pain
Kate Carmody is a recipient of a CINTAS Foundations grant supporting artists born in Cuba or of Cuban descent. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Lady/Liberty/Lit, Lunch Ticket, among others. She received her MFA from Antioch University in Los Angeles. She teaches writing courses at Antioch and Austin Bat Cave. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and dog. The three of them are in a band called Dadafacer. Find her on Twitter at @KateCarmody8 Instagram: carmo8.
