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Famous Amos Redux
by Mike Golden
"We need a new word for pussy."
That's what this pretty bartender
from Michigan told me.
Pussy sounds too squishy.
Cunt is too hard.
Vagina might as well be
an isosceles triangle
or a cut of veal.
She's got monster chops
she takes for granted.
She's 25, 26, 27. . .
came here four years ago to be an actress
yada-yada-yada. . .

I had monster chops
I didn't know what to do with
so I came here 30 years ago
to write the Great American Novel
yada-yada-yada. . .

I wrote 12 hours a day for awhile
cut down to five for awhile
before I got married for awhile
and had to fight to do one for awhile.
Then I got divorced and got drunk
and did none for an even longer while
until I got lucky, and found the-great-love-
of-my-life for awhile.

In all those whiles I might have
sidetracked myself, but I never quit
or met anyone who changed the word for pussy
except the-great-love-of-my-life
who told me the first time we slept together
when she hit puberty
she named her pussy "Golden."

I was blown away then
but now I realize
Muses must say that
to all the boys; inserting
whatever your name is
for their pussy.

Can you imagine calling your pussy Irving?
Or Mailer
Or Updike?

Eat my Irving, baby!
Eat my Mailer!
Eat my Updike; I don't think so!

The pretty bartender from Michigan
says she'd like to call her pussy "cookie."
That's a lot more like it, don't you think?
It has a ring to it. . ."Eat my cookie."

If she stays focused
and respects her instrument
she might actually make it
in this town.

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