Works by
Amanda Chiado

“Good Stink” And “Diagnosis: STD”

By Amanda Chiado

 

Good Stink

My favorite air freshener is called

Grandma goes to bingo.

 

Diagnosis:  STD

Everyone loves a pirate,

a one-eyed ocean ghost. 

 

A grunt is an acceptable answer

to any question worth asking. 

 

I’m good at reading rotten teeth,

they are my future. 

 

Pirates make good boyfriends

because they give you stolen

bangles. Hauntings are so romantic.

 

Return to the Current Issue Amanda claims: “I am a recent graduate of California College of the Arts and now I am working as an Elementary Teacher in a first/second grade combination class.  My work has most recently appeared in Monday Night and is forthcoming in Cranky and Dusie,” but frankly, we don’t believe a word of it.
© Defenestration Magazine, 2006