The Palimpsest Review - Volume 10

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Sarah Etter: “Concaves”

Marissa Molina: "The Day I Wasn’t There"

Andrew Timberlake-Newell: "Smokie"

Anthony Kocur: "To the Edge"

David Kim: "Young and Perverted"

Ryan Morini: "B – Movie Enthusiast"

Joe Giachero: "Whatever Came First"

Meghan Elliott: "Sound"

Veronika L Daddona: "Driver" and "Lamentia"

Ronell Smith: "The 1988 Holiday Barbie"

Charles Howells: "Bandwagon Patriots"

Andrew Noll: "Ten Feet Behind J.F.K."

Sarah E. Smith: "Autumn Skies"

Daniel Debiec: "A Morning in Missoula" and "into the rain"

Ryan Melling: "Hand in Hand"

Andraleen Zelonis: "Let’s Play"

Kevin Cope: "House Guest"

Becky Liscusky: "I Like Dogs and Frogs" and "You know the pan’s hot"

Amber Shinskie: "Scent of a Cherry Cigar"

 

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David Kim – Berks

   Young and Perverted

So I kissed Becky Dietrich
The best I knew how, with my 9th grade lips,
Wanting…wanting, I don’t know what.
Who do you think you are?
But I was a teenage Casanova, swooning women with
Smooth talk, and sandpapered fingertips.
Diluted.
And my mind wandered, my hand wandered;
Flashed Sex Ed—awkward moments with the sounds of the words
Penis and vagina left reverberating between chuckles and snickers—
No one really knowing what the heck they thought they were doing
Trying to teach us this stuff.
Me, in my head, I was the king of romance,
Kissing her soft, pink lips,
Like they were fresh young Georgia peaches—fleshy and summertime ripe.
Because I was young, perverted,
And I had thought that that was okay..