Alicia Ostriker
The Liberal Arts
In mathematics they say the most beautiful solution is the correct oneIn physics they say everything that can happen must happenIn history they say the more it changes the more it is the same In astrophysics you take the long viewIn chemistry you explode and blend, it is a bit like freestyle cooking, the Yiddish …
To One about to Give Birth
ANGER: THE RAPE
No cruelty is like the cruelty one turns against oneself after being raped one feels covered in slime and shit said the old woman grimly This place used to be a park now it is a parking lot ha ha for which I am in the ornamental fringe don’t tell me I should get over …