secondhand lover for sale
"if I get boiled pure / in your lobster pot / would it peel off / like a scarlet clearance tag?"
a storyteller and editor from Queens, NY
"if I get boiled pure / in your lobster pot / would it peel off / like a scarlet clearance tag?"
sarah jinee park 
A poem about sexual discovery and empowerment, not for the faint of heart.
secondhand lover for sale (excerpt)
fifty different mattresses
and none before you remarked on the freckle
on my left inner lip I’d never noticed
only ever touched
Read the whole poem in Peach Velvet Magazine’s Summer ’20 issue: “As Is”.
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