Chocolate Waters

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pretty is

as pretty does
and pretty
pretty much does
as she damn well pleases
pretty is as pretty does and
you are pretty
much
of the time but not this time
this time you are
pretty much
well
clueless

Chocolate Waters' latest chapbook, the woman who wouldn't shake hands, will be released by Poets Wear Prada (Hoboken, N.J.) in November. The two poems that appear in Shot Glass are included in this collection. Waters lives and writes in Manhattan. Visit her at www.chocolatewaters.com or on the omnipresent Facebook.