Abstract
It Was a Compliment, Jeez Nicole Higgins (bio) and now I must think I'm really somethingto sigh after your long day on the busor Saturday bright as a J. Crew coatstunning in a parade. Thanklessin the market. Look at me. Who would dreamchance hands touching over avocados whenI could be your number one lady forever?She is beautiful—get your vowel's worth.I get it. Still, here I go again, beingmy own kind. Has anyone ever told yousometimes it bes like that? Sometimesyou have a dark face and becomea child star of the 1980s. Sometimesyou work hard, are brilliant and sayingright things with hair laid and a mancalls you an animal. How dare I make ita thing (coming from where I come from)screaming in the heartland with some namemy mother gave me. Has anyone evertold you she said what she said?I mean sometimes you just get tired and dipand it's their hunger growling.Sometimes all you can do is sighand look out over the vegetable gardenfeeling your Wheaties. [End Page 247] Nicole Higgins Nicole Higgins is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University. She has received fellowships from Callaloo and Cave Canem. Her work has appeared in Storyscape, Bear Review, Sink Review, and elsewhere. Copyright © 2020 Pleiades and Pleiades Press
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