the cincinnati snowwoman
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       the cincinnati snowwoman has a lovely neck

       she shapely rolls her cold shoulder and hints at the clavicle
       this snowwoman looks good with hips on her and just look
       at the hourglass waist riding those hips!

       a fat-bottomed girl for all the right reasons

       the cincinnati snowwoman wears crimson red for painted lips
       india ink black for painted brows and pupils
       no urbane gypsy -- she is a savvy askhenazi

       she comes and goes with the once in a blue moon ohio river snow
       she surprises the driveby passerby in this conservative city
       no naked woman she -- adroitly wraps herself with my only scarf
       optionally assuming a soft cotton tee for sleeping

       this young snowwoman put on airs like a statuette for a first time
       at a funerary monument and clay lawn ornament sale -- she covers up
       feeling exposed and being alone -- while appearing purely imperial
       gracing mom's sleeping witches' garden something winter munificent

       weirds out sparrows and cats -- laughs the littering kids
       a homemade haughty homer queen for crashing the local hood party:
       the warm piss-glow of plastic creches santas and sleighs strung out
       on blinking blights -- the merry berry queen city


               Marek Lugowski
               9 December 1999
               Chicago, Illinois