Article: For a diva.(Poem)

For a Diva 
 
   You can be anything. Zenobia of Palmyra 
   startled awake in childhood by a bird 
   in her father's palace almost floats into the courtyard. 
   The cook whose boyfriend's been hauled to prison 
   for killing her mother writes letters never delivered 
   because the landlord wants to control her life, waits in the hall 
   to assault her when she comes back from shopping. The bourgeois 
   wife 
   sleeps with her husband's banker and having given birth 
   to a foundling who grows up to be a semiliterate stick-up artist 
   must finally recognize it's her own child who's stabbed her 
   from the mark on his wrist. The hermit lady in the hills 
   has dreams of ...

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