listen i love you (2019)

6” embroidery hoop . Words after Kim Addonizio’s To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever  

closed your legs to a man you loved opened  

them for one you didn’t moved against  

a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach  

seaweed clinging to your ankles paid  

good money for a bad haircut backed away  

from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled  

into the back seat for lack of a tampon   

if you swam across a river under rain sang  

using a dildo for a microphone stayed up  

to watch the moon eat the sun entire   

ripped out the stitches in your heart   

because why not if you think nothing &  

no one can / listen I love you 

joy is coming.

Kim Addonizio