Sharing Poetry: Sharon Olds, "The One Girl at the Boys' Party"

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When I take my girl to the swimming party
I set her down among the boys. They tower and
bristle, she stands there smooth and sleek,
her math scores unfolding in the air around her.
They will strip to their suits, her body hard and
indivisible as a prime number,
they’ll plunge in the deep end,…

5 months ago  Notes (74)
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    This is truly excellent.
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    This is, of course, a pretty bad poem, but I think you’re being too broad in your definition of “fetishization of...
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