A review by spacestationtrustfund
Hairdo by Rachel B. Glaser

3.0

MY NAKED PRINCESS

you have the right face for everything
except charity work
except zookeeper

This is the antidote to Instagram poetry, in my opinion: it's in the same style, and often very simple, more like prose split up with line breaks than actual poetry, but the difference is that it's actually good, and also I believe that Rachel B. Glaser knows what poetry actually is. She writes lines like "I’m attached to a rod with a hair clip" and we all know how much I'm into weird, casual objectification (as in, being like an object). From the same poem: "fuck me when no one’s looking / if my manual tells you to."

from IT IS ILLEGAL TO LIKE YOU

your tears are worth something
they make my thighs feel like swan meat and thunder

from WHAT I'M GONNA DO TO YOU

first I’m gonna strip you of your stupid clothes
then I’m gonna check my phone for new texts
then I’m gonna check out Pippi Longstocking’s Wikipedia page
first I’m gonna get naked
then I’m gonna pace like a security guard
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