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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7583-kim-addonizio-prayer Eric made a comment in the ¡ POETRY ! group:

one of my favorites of hers is:

"What Do Women Want?"

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.


]]> http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/233._POETRY_ Eric joined the ¡ POETRY ! group. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4432777 Meghan's review of The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
by Bill Bryson

Hey, I'm glad to see that there's someone else who laughs out loud at Bill Bryson, although this happens to me when I read Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten and Roy Blount Jr. or when I'm listening to Garrison Keillor -- so maybe I'm just a sucker for that style of humor.

As a Des Moines native, I thought Bryson hit the nail on the head about our hometown: "Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7888031 to: The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories Plus a Complete Novel (Paperback) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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I admit it -- I read The Da Vinci Code and I liked it. Great writing? No. Page turner? Definitely. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7887322 to: Crow and Weasel (Paperback) by Barry Lopez
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