By Alexis Rhone Fancher on October 12, 2016
Speaking of Pussy…
With all the talk of pussy this week, and our pleasure at watching political reporters squirm to avoid saying the word, we thought we’d “grab” our favorite erotic poet for her views…
– The Editors
I PREFER PUSSY (a little city-kitty ditty)
I prefer pussy, as in cat
as in willow
as in chases a rat
as in raised on a pillow.
I prefer pussy, as in riot
as in foots
as in pussycat doll
as in puss-in-boots.
I prefer pussy, as a twat
it is not, nor
is it a beaver,
a clam or a cleaver.
I prefer pussy to
nookie or gash,
it isn’t a box,
or a cave or a slash.
I prefer pussy, ‘though
rosebud’s not bad,
and muffin sounds homey,
and cooch makes me glad.
I prefer pussy to snapper
or snatch, far better
than taco or
slit or man-catch.
I prefer pussy, as in whip
as in flower,
as into it you slip –
as in I have the power.
This poem was first published in KYSO Flash, Fall, 2016. Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Poet/photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, The New York Times, Petrichor, The MacGuffin, Plume, Tinderbox, Diode, Nashville Review, Wide Awake, Poets of Los Angeles, Pirene’s Fountain, Cleaver, Glass, Rust + Moth, Duende, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her books include: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen & other heart stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, (2015), Enter Here, (2017), and The Dead Kid Poems, (2019), and Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), an autobiographical chapbook chronicling Alexis’s first, disastrous marriage. She’s been published in over 60 anthologies, including the best-selling Nasty Women Poets (Lost Horse Press, 2017), Terrapin Books’ A Constellation of Kisses, (2019),and Antologia di poesia femminile americana contemporanea, (Edizioni Ensemble, Italia, 2018). Her photographs have been published worldwide, including the covers of Witness, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Heyday, and Pithead Chapel, and a spread in River Styx. A multiple Pushcart Prize, Best Short Fiction, and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis has been poetry editor of Cultural Weekly since late 2012. She and her husband live 20 miles outside of downtown L.A., in a small beach community overlooking the Pacific. They have an extraordinary view.
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