I Come from a Line of Women | Susan Vespoli

Susan Vespoli came from a line of unstoppable women. She’s traveled across the country on the back of a motorcycle in a hurricane, lived on Guam, camped for weeks in Denmark, and sold everything to go back to poetry school when she was in her 50s. She splits her time between Washington state and Arizona. Her work has been published in spots such as Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, Mom Egg Review, Emrys Journal, Writing Bloody, New Verse News, and Pact Press. This is her second chapbook published by dancing girl press.  Cover art based on drawings by Marianne Killick. ______________________ Argues Watch me ignore he who argues.Calm is my mantra, my anti ager. Anger makes cortisol levels surgeturns teetotaler into booze user or cookie snarfer, not sageways to douse rage. No. I will take the sagerroute. Don my piss gear against the storm. Avoid aguewith Om as my ruse breathe in and out sugarto sweeten bitterness in he who argues.