Image: The Yellow Phone by Jon Riggs
RISKY BEHAVIOR, 1959
​Long plaid skirt,
pointed glasses,
maroon loafers
with bright pennies
slipped in:
the young woman
picks up Beauvier, Cather
and Woolf.
 
Baggy painter’s pants,
wire glasses,
construction boots
with sawdust crowding
her bootstrings:
frivolous reading can be
dangerous,
an occupational hazard.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 18 books. Seven of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the editor of Callisto: A Queer Fiction Journal. His latest titles include The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and online at raymondluczak.com.
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