The Beautiful

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ISBN: 9780916397890 | 0916397890
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/2003

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"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."-The San Francisco Bay Guardian Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first time. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

The Beautiful	p. 13
McDonald's	p. 17
August-September	p. 20
Orca	p. 24
X-Girl	p. 29
Sell-Out	p. 31
My Pain	p. 32
The Cruelty of Strangers	p. 33
Unsmoking	p. 36
Biter	p. 39
Please	p. 41
Motorcycle Funeral Escort	p. 43
No Girls	p. 45
Dive	p. 46
Ask Me About My Grandkids	p. 47
Oh God	p. 49
If You Leave A Woman Flowers You'll Probably Scare Her Away	p. 50
1/1/94	p. 53
Letter to a Masochist	p. 54
Suicide Poem	p. 55
When I Love My Father	p. 56
Nanabelly	p. 58
Advice for the Lovelorn	p. 59
Trying to Move the Mystery Muscle	p. 61
How to Reprogram Your Sexuality	p. 63
All These Wounded Women	p. 65
For Zanne For Zanne For Zanne	p. 67
We Could Be Soulmates	p. 69
Three Male Abortion Doctors	p. 71
Dragging the Recycling Out of the Whorehouse	p. 74
Beach Poem	p. 76
I Am the Light	p. 77
A Brief Night Out in Tucson	p. 79
Ode to Chelsea	p. 81
And I Still Can't Drive, Really	p. 83
Just What the World Needs	p. 85
St. Candace of the Incest Daughters	p. 86
Happy	p. 88
My Life in 11 Parts	p. 93
My Mother Getting Divorced	p. 105
Johns Who Don't Pay are Rapists	p. 107
Dream of an Ex-Girlfriend	p. 109
Kathleen	p. 110
The Enormity of a Beaten Woman's Blood	p. 112
How I Lost My Poetry	p. 115
Crabs are No Big Deal	p. 117
Peter and Me	p. 119
How I Lived My Life in Tuscon	p. 121
What I Know	p. 123
Bus Story	p. 125
Right Where You Should Be	p. 126
What Happened	p. 128
Dysfunctional Love Poem for Ali	p. 129
The Love for a Mother is a Tough, Tough Love	p. 133
For My Nana	p. 136
Go Kiss Go	p. 138
This Doesn't Happen Often	p. 139
Hell is a State School	p. 141
This is About Karma	p. 144
Fake Duck/Bad Trip	p. 146
We are Girls	p. 149
I Used to Be Straight	p. 152
Trick Poem #2	p. 154
My Heart	p. 157
On Learning My Lover was a Whore or It's All Her Fault	p. 159
That Look	p. 162
Five Reasons Why I May Die of Cancer	p. 164
Emotional Masochism or New Age Message from Beyond?	p. 166
People I've Lost	p. 167
Another Day at Work	p. 168
Mr. Buzzle	p. 169
Lovesad	p. 170
Gazpacho	p. 171
Sushi	p. 173
Of Course	p. 175
A Good Thing to Say	p. 179
I'm Getting Really Sick of Writing Poems Like This	p. 180
Percentages	p. 182
Laurie	p. 186
Nature Video	p. 189
The City at the End of the World	p. 192
Impossible	p. 194
The Armageddon Dance	p. 197
Pigeons	p. 200
My Place in the World	p. 203
Last Hope	p. 205
The Biggest Mistake I Made All Year	p. 207
Our Lady of Ridiculous Wishes	p. 209
Nice Try	p. 211
The Big One's Not Coming	p. 214
What I Mean by American	p. 216
Pickup Trucks	p. 218
Cops	p. 220
Pastry Tragedy	p. 224
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