#thepoeming2024

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 33

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[stepfordwivespoems]

The bullshit changed

into a house

on fire

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 85

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[stepfordwivespoems]

The country and presidential

figures are hunting The Daughters

of Heaven

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 99

[stepfordwivespoems]

you’re going to change

into an irrational pick me

and need a psychiatrist

he said shaking his head

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 87

[stepfordwivespoems]

her mouth open

undressed, lying on her back—

Did God remember her?

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 14

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[stepfordwivespoems]

zombie-ized mother was

looking bland— dead

to interest,

to want

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 67

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[stepfordwivespoems]

I’ve been wasting time

I’m more

myself now

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 121

[stepfordwivespoems]

The women bleed for God’s sake

Man would convince her

to bleed without argument

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 114