Nicole Steinberg

STOP PANICKING ABOUT GETTING OLDER, YOU PRICKS 

We are good tenants, all.
We wake to pay our rent,
for mornings warm as mouthfuls
of amaretto and/or God, for sex
performed according to
individual concepts of joy.
For the spilled milk of outer
space and how earth dissolves
its porous children, my eyes cross
with love. They say I’m getting to
that age when I’ll have to decide.

Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and two chapbooks available in 2014: Undressing from dancing girl press and Clever Little Gang, winner of the Furniture Press 4X4 Chapbook Award. Her other publications include Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011) and Birds of Tokyo (dancing girl press, 2011).