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“First Time” and “More Things I Didn’t
Want To Know”
By Holly Day
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First Time
I never would have done it
if I'd known my best friend's dad
was watching us through the window
watching me and his daughter
shirts off, holding a joint to each other's lips
silly and fourteen and
oh, it felt so exotic
wasn't prepared for the pamphlets on STDs
waiting for me when I got home
the lectures on the joys of heterosexuality
my mother's confused ramblings
on the painful lives of lesbians
I kept telling her
we didn't really do anything, but she
forbade me to ever go back to Diane's
and Diane's parents kept her
from seeing me
More Things I Didn't Want To Know
they say you can learn a lot about a man
by what he eats for lunch
or at least what he puts in his lunchbox
my co-worker, Al, brings same lunch to work
every day: a sandwich, an enema
and a clean, folded pair of boxers
all lined up in his metal lunch box
in the apparent order of use.
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Holly Day is similar to “holiday,” which
makes everyone around here think of Christmas, except for Andrew and Genevieve,
who in an uncanny display of spontaneous unanimity agreed that it reminded them
of Ghostbusters. Holly Day lives in an
undisclosed location writing poetry that has nothing to do with ghosts or the
busting thereof.
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