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Sarah Anne Cox in Response to Daphne Gottlieb

Broadway and Columbus
 

 
 
Is Carol Doda’s even there anymore?
That neighborhood that lived so snugly between bookstores and porn shops and punkrock clubs.  
 
I had a boyfriend who worked at Columbus Books. It’s not there anymore, either is he.  We used to smoke heroin and then try to have sex, so challenging, but we were twenty. He died.
 
He used to try to have sex with everyone, his friends and acquaintances, my friends and acquaintances. That happens when you’re twenty-two. Except to me. I did not sleep with all my F and A. Just a few Jenny, Dan, that guy from Paranoid Blue. I was picky and very shallow.
 
“It’s ok, I told him. I am inherently dangerous: as a feminine audience I have the ability to affirm your performance of masculinity, but as a potentially hysterical woman I also have the ability to radically undermine that performance.”
 
I think of Carol with her enormous breasts spilling out of her fussy pink sweater wrap and her gigantic smile.  Did she say anything like this?  I secretly hope she did- that all women do, say this to casual fucks.



Sarah Anne Cox is the author of Arrival (Krupsaya 2002) and Parcel (O Books 2006) and Super Undone Blue (Dusie 2016). Her work has appeared in the American anthologies Bay Poetics, Technologies of Measure, and Kindergarde . She lives in San Francisco where she teaches, windsurfs, and snowboards with her homeschooled children.

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