'The Perfect Woman' By Lindsey Gemme
Winner of second place in the poetry genre for the second
annual literary journal "Saguaro Speaks" through
Central Arizona College's Signal Peak campus.
"The Perfect Woman"
By Lindsey Gemme
She's three feet taller than I am,
boobs to the brim
and laughs. She laughs, and she laughs...
She touches her cheek
and remembers your every
viewpoint,
word, and
dream.
She's a slip of pink blanket
On cool beach sands
And the blue umbrella above
While you survey her dependable waves.
Lips that brush creation
inspire and breathe life into
any artist, She trusts
and lives life
like it never started
and will never end.
Her unborn babies
are smart, who've
already won god's favor
to be born into this world on first try.
No doubts burden her
long lash;
She cries at weddings
embraces the betrayed
and answers with the perfect silence.
Because sometimes
it's the best thing to say.
Everyone's in her corner,
because she knows them all by name,
has a funny story to tell
with a hand on her hip
filed fingernails and
pretty feminine fire
laminating her casual
manner, and pretends not to know.
You can't disapprove.
The human race
courts her
The Perfect Woman -
We should hate her for
setting the bar
so high.
But we try,
reaching out for her
hand. Being close
is better than not being her
at all.
11:30:38 AM 
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