My Girl Is a Lawyer
︎︎︎ Shelby Hartness
︎ APR 8, 2022
strapping on
the lace
to my pink leather
Mary Jane’s
last night
I became
Kim Kardashian’s
latest
rebound
my neck
courted
by pop culture’s
number one
most
salacious
celebrity
oval
nails
nude
she
dipped
my toes
in the
fountain
broad
daylight
cheeks
bit
nectarine
with
luster
laughing
a girl
I once
babysit
for
had the same
disposition
I ran
up the
stairs
shaped
into the
mountain
by the
ocean
felt
her
eyes
tracing
the outline
of my
ass
her boyfriend
paid me off
with alcohol
to sell coke
to his other
enamored
minors
hit a stop sign
then the cops
my kids
screaming
God tell me
why this
showed up
in my dreams
the lace
to my pink leather
Mary Jane’s
last night
I became
Kim Kardashian’s
latest
rebound
my neck
courted
by pop culture’s
number one
most
salacious
celebrity
oval
nails
nude
she
dipped
my toes
in the
fountain
broad
daylight
cheeks
bit
nectarine
with
luster
laughing
a girl
I once
babysit
for
had the same
disposition
I ran
up the
stairs
shaped
into the
mountain
by the
ocean
felt
her
eyes
tracing
the outline
of my
ass
her boyfriend
paid me off
with alcohol
to sell coke
to his other
enamored
minors
hit a stop sign
then the cops
my kids
screaming
God tell me
why this
showed up
in my dreams
Shelby Hartness is a writer and poet living in Half Moon Bay, California. Her work has appeared in The Skirt Chronicles, passerby, WONDER, Des pair quarterly, and D Magazine, among others. shelbyhartness.com