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    The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Jan 01, 2020 4 minutes
    ADRIAN BLEVINS

    Low Status

    as Low Status schizoid? Diabetic? Scaly? Obese? Did she drive some kind of truck? A scooter? A horse? Was Low Status just ignorant? Had she no sense? Did she drink brandy? Did she eat okra? Was she from Germany? Puerto Rico? Charleston? Iraq? Was her hair too puffy? Was it too flat? Did Low Status not shop? Where were her shoes? Why were they white? Was that her at McDonald’s drinking a Coke? Is Low Status Delta Dawn? Is her heart broke? Is Low Status the short manager of a low rent hotel? Is in her hair? Does Low Status not travel overseas? Has she never seen a Renoir? A windbreaker? A pear?

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