Issue 12
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Arlene Ang
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Ladies Night Out
The thick swing of doors
and interior darkness
already warns
'for women only'.
Free coupon in hand,
I hesitate
before braving this womb
of bass-pumped music.
After twenty years
of children and marriage,
I remind myself
I am female, after all.
Leather skirts
on the bandstand assault
shouting audiences
with metal-peppered melodies
as waitresses in black
single me out
with barked commands
to order cocktails.
Perched on this stool
of isolation,
I hang on to the only
company at hand --
this umbrellaed cocktail
sweating coldness on my palm
in the middle of
desperately happy faces.
~Arlene Ang
Arlene Ang is the editor of the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Green Tricycle, The Paumanok Review, Sometimes City, Tryst and Eclectica. Email.
© 2003 by Arlene Ang. All Rights Reserved.
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