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One of my book ideas:
a book called OY
with poems that generate
an Oy response
such as Buying a Bathing Suit.
I frequently try,
walking in to the Town Shop
on Broadway a store that began
in the village in 1888
moved to the Upper West Side
in 1937 run for years
by Selma Koch original family member.
She’d sit on a high stool
near the door and yell out
your bra size when you walked
in the door then continued
Your Bra is Wrong.
No one contradicted Selma.
I asked her once
what I should do about a bathing suit.
Forget the beach she said.
And laughed.
Yes. and I remember the scary, skinny bra lady, who pull the straps of the bra so tight I thought I'd choke.
Selma’s wisdom, yeah!