Thanks to Connie Rabinovitz for handing me Judith Steinbergh's book yesterday. Judith was Brookline Poet Laureate in the mid-twenty-teens. She inscribed this book to Connie in 1981. For some more recent poems, click here.
Remember, Lillian, Stay Away From
by Judith W. Steinbergh
from Lillian Bloom: A Separation (Green Harbor, MA: 1980)
Remember, Lillian, Stay Away From
married men
other writers
men you have to support
men with unfulfilled fantasies
men who hate kids
men who even mildly dislike them
men who like them too much
men who won't help cook
men who don't like what you cook
men who dislike women who want to succeed
men who like success better than women
men over 40
men under 40
men who lived with their mothers til 40
men who are like your mother
men your mother wouldn't like
men your mother would like
men who need you to understand their sexual difficulties
men who love sex as long as it's group
men who go with the flow
men who live in vans
men who are passing through on the way to Tibet
or Alaska or the Keys or even the suburbs
men who don't like your friends
men who are a bit too enthusiastic about your friends
men who were Jesuits for ten years
men who dress like Rita Hayworth
RocknRoll stars, flamenco dancers
taxi drivers
roofers without insurance
insurance salesmen with insurance
air force generals
philosophers
men who never smoked a joint
men who won't boogie
men with gurus they visit in India
men with gurus they visit in Brooklyn
men with analysts
analysts
therapists
state prison guards
men who have airplanes to catch
men with mistresses
men with computers in their bedroom
athletic fanatics
athletic supporters
men who believe in free will for men
amen
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