Golden Shovel inspired by Anna Roseboro uses last lines of Billy Collins’ “A Terrible Beauty” and “Irish Spider.”
Irish Spider Buries Terrible Beauty With a Golden Shovel
I hear the swoosh of her
text, click to see the latest
manipulative photo: a dripping
bowl of juicy watermelon, silvery
veined, picnic crown
of the sultry beaches of
Florida – now pure ice
on the screen – but
I’m not swooned by memories, not
stirred by her fooling
manner to lure me
to be wooed by
this narcissistic bully, not a
puppet in her show a single minute
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