How do I see myself? Molly gets asked this a lot. She looks in the mirror and sees Picasso’s understanding of her distorted self. In the chat room that served as her a senior seminar, she introduced the picture as “ravished mlf looks in the mirror after all-nighter.” She also wrote a poem, “Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror,” revealing an affinity with the late John Ashbery.
Self-Portrait in a Concave MirrorMy mirror, I ask you, where have you been?
Proud of tits, mine or ours, we love, I miss.Mirror made from eyes my beaux go
blind for closing them when we did kiss,when I did hiss, when you did piss
but the battle between us (you cannot winthat necklace of shards lost slapping your reflection)from toes to tips of tongue torn tights up for reviewshe stands before the pier glass with rings and jewels
and the poem on the pillow written with her lipstick
is carried dactyl by furry dactyl to the waiting goddess in the mirrorto swallow ah my ersters molly sighs I am a mess
neither mess nor mass but the girl who was Miss
Universe has gone down with the ship looking for Moby Dick.— Molly Arden
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Author: The Best American Poetry
