Christine Gardiner
from AS SEEN ON TV
Q: What goes on behind the scenes?
A: Good girls don’t eat meat or
keep parakeets in cages. We only
eat organic but sometimes slip
& dress like fallen angels
bc deep down we know plastic
makes the world possible.
Q: You can’t put a price on human life but
what kind of guy do you like, what’s your type??
a good guy? a bad guy? a fist fight?
A: Hm. Good question! Hard to say...
I mean my best bad boy
looks like danger, a gangster,
legs & a black leather jacket.
I am in love with his imagination.
He imagines me poised & undressed
draped in capitalism & casual sex, but
I also have a good guy who is always there for me.
Every night he meets me backstage, streaming
internet tv. Desperate with pornography
to rape & save young women from rape.
Christine Gardiner writes poetry, memoir, and fiction. Her first book, My Sister's Father, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2017, and her experiments in confessional poetry can be found at www.petmurmur.com. She holds an MFA from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University and is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the College of New Rochelle, School of New Resources where she is edified by her students and their stories.
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