Concrete Concubine (poem) by elizabeth carter bissette on AuthorsDen

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Concrete Concubine by elizabeth carter bissette Sunday, November 10, 2002 Share Print Save Become a Fan I am a kept woman, concubine to the Corporate King of Concrete. Do I amuse? Draw you in? Closer now, come in, come in. I am a collector of men. See how the land you pick through lies, I have been told that I surprise. I have been told through flashed winks and smiles of anticipation in rooms where I am merely decoration that I unsettle. Do you dare? Beware, I handmaiden of high-rise dwell in air and there lies a paradise many flatly strain to reach.
Written one morning when temping at the Mercantile Exchange, Chicago.

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Reviewed by elizabeth bissette	11/26/2002

This was my 'signature poem' when I worked with a great group of poets in Chicago. You're right - it has been edited over the years - but it was the only poem I had that would silence not only the poets and artists in the room, but the Latin Kings and barfly's too.




Reviewed by allen mahan	11/25/2002

first "10" i've given you! this one...how many times did you re-write it? i cannot yet say exactly "why," but, while reading this the first time i "felt" as if i were walking "down" a mountain, or (_a la_ "spiderman"); climbing "down" a skyscraper...hmm . . .