My Five Big Sisters
Effie’s love of the exotic lands her with
Some ancient Greek guy named Spontaneous,
An improv actor or gigolo, or probably both.
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Riley leaves the playground in a fit of rage,
Frizzles her braids with a stolen lighter,
Throws her shoes at a taxi, lies on the double-yellow.
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Veda is telling her friends why Nubian goats are needy,
Why they should all become Zoroastrians, and that a dux
Is a Roman general, not that fucking Sarah Fletcher!
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Paige cruises about as if she’s a small nation
With a high life expectancy and
A well-trained standing army.
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Adeline is demanding her bovine, boorish boyfriend
Read Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’, look up solipsism,
And write ‘love’ not ‘luv’ when he texts her.