Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Phone Sex With You by Jessy Randall

What are you wearing?
Um, pants and a shirt
Can you make it more sexy?
And a knit hat
Now you're lying
I'm wearing a poncho
Take it off
I'm taking off my poncho in a really sexy way
Describe it
It has Velcro and I'm unvelcroing the Velcro
What sound does it make?
A sexy sound like khkhkhkhkh
A velcroey sound


Jessy Randall's collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her poems and other works have appeared in Asimov's, Coconut, Many Mountains Moving, McSweeney's, and No Tell Motel. She has a young adult novel forthcoming in 2009, and her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.

6 comments:

julianza said...

I love Jessy's poetry. She has this way of both unravelling (and ravelling: is that a word?) the world at once. Her wit is so funky. What I mean is, she's sort of nutty, in a very serious way; she's my kind of nut. If you see her read aloud, you will note the little devil lurking in her humor. And no one does "concise" quite like Jessy. Also, I'm not sure, but I think "irony" may be her middle name. I've never known anyone who looked less like his/her name. I believe this is the basis for her becoming a poet. She must now name things, abstractions, actions, and etc., and correctly. Which she so does. Julianza Shavin

julianza said...

Oops, that should have said that I've never known anyone who looks less like her first, given name. Just to clear that up. Jessy has informed me that I am NEVER to use her full (first) given name unless I am angry with her. This has not occurred yet, but I look forward to it with great anticipation. Julianza

Annette said...

Oh Jess this made me laugh and laugh...thanks!

your cousin Annie

David Graham said...

Good one, Jessy!

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