IT GIRL
Nicola Maye Goldberg
you’re dancing / I’m watching you dancing
it gives me a forever feeling
you look like a dead movie star
with your blank eyes painted black
noose of pearls around throat
red wine stains on your front teeth
(the main creature of
every story I know)
come back here I want to
break your perfect bones
Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of the novels OTHER WOMEN and NOTHING CAN HURT YOU. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Vogue, New York Tyrant and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and the Center for Fiction.