Lonesome rodeo clown doll with her jeans slouched low,
red dust rusting her black Vans.
Cigarette like a punchline
dangling
from a pout in the shape of her ex-girlfriend’s name.
Grease paint tears likely never going to wash off and that’s how she likes it.
Bombshell in a barrel,
striptease strutting over your horned problems.
Open arms for all the rock-bottom babes
crying over toilets
while she holds back their hair.
She doesn’t believe in right or wrong, just what feels good
and that can be very beautiful—
for a little while.
Kimberly Wolf is a poet living in Texas. Her poems have been published in HAD, LEON Literary Review, Vast Chasm, and more. She is the author of the chapbook, How the Frogs Get Married (Bullshit Lit, 2023). You can read more of her work at http://www.kimberlywolfpoet.com.