Women Collapse Into Better Brighter Artists
︎︎︎︎︎ Iva Moore
︎Oct 22, 2023
Ever since I quit the pill, I’ve gotten prettier, meaner, and happy. Legally, I have changed my first name to Cecilia.
Cecilia Vicuña was born in nineteen forty-eight, like my father. And like my father, I wanted to accomplish myself. Process corrodes the point.
“I suppose the point is very vanilla…”
How does the action of wrapping a regular rope around a regular pencil contain the family, fulfillment, and the function of lust? What rests there in the slippage between the word “rope” and the word “ripe.”
In a pure but rigorous display of aggression, I inserted a complicated memory.
Is it fatal? As fatal as the world.
Cecilia Vicuña was born in nineteen forty-eight, like my father. And like my father, I wanted to accomplish myself. Process corrodes the point.
“I suppose the point is very vanilla…”
How does the action of wrapping a regular rope around a regular pencil contain the family, fulfillment, and the function of lust? What rests there in the slippage between the word “rope” and the word “ripe.”
In a pure but rigorous display of aggression, I inserted a complicated memory.
Is it fatal? As fatal as the world.
Iva Moore is a writer from Waverly, Kentucky. Her chapbook Women Collapse Into / Better, Brighter Artists is forthcoming with Oversound.
Also by Iva: Loserville