about the author

Rebecca “Big Whiskey” Mertz lives and teaches writing in Pittsburgh, PA. You may see her poems at Drunken Boat, H_NGM_N, BathHouse, and elsewhere on the internets. She smokes a lot.


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Rebecca Mertz



My mother changed the channel during sex

and sometimes violence till my brain
began to process the drawing together of bodies /the sharp

breathing or blade shining in the /dark/
with a speedy interruption like,

ADDITIONALLY FOR ONLY NINE NINETY FIVE    or
                                                                  JESUS CHRIST YOUR      PERSONAL
                                                                       or
SAVE NOW ON BEDROOM FURNITURE, PATIO or the sharp static of what      was unpaid for

back when cable was not yet an interface
of class/the slow rush of
understanding

between the knee-caps and
my cunt/endless advertising
of surgery after
      surgery





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