the way i am.

"I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty
unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty."
-Everything is Illuminated, Jonathon Safran Foer

"I knew a clean man
but he was not for me.
Now I sew green aprons
over covered seats. He

wades the muddy water fishing,
falls in, dries his last pay-check
in the sun, smooths it out
in Leaves Of Grass.
He's the one for me."

-Lorine Niedecker