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I left the room at 7 & took an Uber to the airport You didn’t seem to get it when I said I’m not going to Emma-fye myself Which my phone kept changing to Emma-dye So I sent you a You Tube clip of the Isabelle Hubert version It’s the part where Emma runs to the pharmacy & grabs the jar of arsenic The word arsenic has three syllables & well it’s the exact same in French In other words Every time a woman fucks a married man she’s the one who gets it in the end I can imagine your face when you read this You are probably thinking I am obsessing I know how men are afraid of women who OBSESS I get sick to my stomach when I think about those girls in Afghanistan who can’t go to school The pilot is talking to all of the White women here as though we're his wife Fuck him & the guy who sold me this coffee I don’t think either of them knows anything about love For me, it has always been much more personal than that Saying that makes me feel nervous & possibly less fuckable We all know where emotional intimacy can lead OMNIA FERT AETAS, ANIMUM QUOQUE & this man who just sat down He put his computer bag down on the floor between his legs just the way you do & now I am so wet all over again
Ann Pedone
Ann is the author of The Medea Notebooks (Etruscan Press), and The Italian Professor’s Wife (Press 53), as well as numerous chapbooks. Her work has recently appeared in Posit, Texas Review, The American Journal of Poetry, the Dialogist, Barrow Street, 2River, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. Ann has been nominated for Best of the Net, and has appeared as Best American Poetry’s “Pick of the Week”. She graduated from Bard College with a degree in English Literature, and has a Master’s in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley.
