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Poet of the Week: Federico García Lorca

When I first started this blog, I did a weekly feature called “Dead Men I’d Like To Have Married.”

Then I ran out of old movie stars that weren’t gay, and I stopped. Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t have married them anyway.

Federico García Lorca is definitely a dead man I’d like to have married. He was also most definitely gay.

Never thee mind, Federico, my ovaries are calling to you. Can you hear their feeble yearning?

July 22, 2011 All the Pretty Horses Federico García Lorca Penelope Cruz Surrealism poet

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One version of the story is I wish you back—

that I used each evening evening out

what all day spent wrinkling.

I bought a dress that was so extravagantly feminine

you could see my ovaries through it.

This is how I thought I would seduce you.

This is how frantic I hollowed out.

July 18, 2011 Brendan Shaughnessy Penelope Cruz social commentary

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