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    Girls Like Me: A Book of Modern Poetry
    Girls Like Me: A Book of Modern Poetry
    Girls Like Me: A Book of Modern Poetry
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    Girls Like Me: A Book of Modern Poetry

    By Teri Louise Kelly

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    The first collection of poetry from Teri Louise Kelly showcases the methodology of an author whose life has been lived both within, and beyond, the borders of the binary system.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Books
    Release dateMar 13, 2010
    ISBN9781452458106
    Girls Like Me: A Book of Modern Poetry
    Author

    Teri Louise Kelly

    Even God makes mistakes.True enough. Tiny little screw ups that can occur in utero, or beyond . . . small shit like chromosomes going awry and the magic hormone fairy forgetting to do her damned job after a heavy night on the juice. Sure, no big shit, get over it – grow some balls, maybe some facial hair, and get drinking. Teri Louise Kelly managed all three in her previous human incarnation when as a surly young tearaway in London, England, she served 'his' time at one of Elizabeth Regina's juvenile detention facilities for wilful destruction of public property, resisting arrest, and assaulting a police dog at a football match. Confused? Well, join the damned club. After muddling through as a 'cute' but rather lippy boy, becoming a chef and traveling the globe, he finally became 'she' in Australia. A strange place to do it for sure, but then again, way down there in the big sandy desert, no one can hear you scream, and, even if they do – nobody gives a wombat's ass.After all of this, out of the cocoon, emerged Teri Louise Kelly, who quite suddenly, decided 'she' could write. And why not? There were worse aspirations – so, she did. Her first book – 'Sex, Knives & Bouillabaisse', (March 2008) set in the swanky rat-face infested bowels of luxury hotels, earned her critical acclaim in Australia's mainstream press – not bad for an untrained chick with a uh . . . yeah, you get the picture.Following on in March 2009 with the sleazy reminisces of a low-rent lfe with the novel 'Last Bed On Earth' (six-months in the lice-riddled backpacking industry in Christchurch New Zealand), Teri Louise Kelly started to earn herself a reputation as a fast-talking, even faster-writing, Bukowski-eque with boobs figure. Obviously, she waved away such comparisons, claiming instead in a major interview that she was, in fact, Hunter S. Thompson reincarnated. Whichever she is, or indeed isn't, what remains, is a style that is simultaneously outlandish, candid, and brutal in its literary execution. Stormtrooping into the poetic genre this year (November 2009) with the release of her first poetry anthology 'Girls Like Me', Teri Louise Kelly has delivered a first-up assault on the flowery genre which will either stand, or fall, merely on its content. Never one to shy away from a fight, from speaking her own mind, or doing exactly what she feels is right – Teri Louise Kelly's latest work 'American Blow Job' pretty much extinguishes any mainstream or alternative media fantasy about transgendered writers avoiding their 'pasts'. She currently lives in a holding tank about forty-five clicks of an undisclosed Australian location where she is under heavy sedation and taken out in disguise each day to attend 'happy hour' and gladhand a few numbnuts.

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      Girls Like Me - Teri Louise Kelly

      GIRLS LIKE ME

      A Book of Modern Poetry

      Teri Louise Kelly

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Teri Louise Kelly

      For more information about Teri Louise Kelly, please visit

      http://www.open-bks.com/

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard word of this author.

      The following also need to be thanked

      for their involvement in this project:

      Me

      Insomniacal Maniac

      Andrew Shaw

      Katherine Cummings

      Daniel Clarke

      Amy K. McDonald

      Sue Webb

      Scott McGuinness

      Georgia Gowing

      Michael Bollen

      Recyclopath

      Amelia Walker

      Kerryn Tredrea

      Jenny Toune

      The Punk Pink Poet

      Hunter S. Thompson

      My Psychiatrist

      Jane Lomax-Smith

      Julia Beaven

      Sara Branham

      Christine Trummer

      Justin Lee Brown-Gagnon

      Scott-Mitchell Patrick

      Kathryn Carmody

      Katrina Fox

      Alyce Shenntal

      Catherine Kenneally

      Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

      Shanan Cummings

      Kylie Cowling

      Merryn Johns

      Eva Grzelak

      Angela Tolley

      My Mother

      Lois Lane

      Marilyn Manson

      David Ross

      Noah Kaplowitz

      Works included in this volume have been previously published in/on:

      Decanto

      Spin

      The Poetry Warrior

      The Independent Weekly (Adelaide)

      Ditch

      Counterexample Poetics

      Radio Adelaide

      Outlaw Press

      Moronic Ox

      Angelfire

      Also by Teri Louise Kelly:

      Sex, Knives & Bouillabaisse (Memoir) Wakefield Press 2008

      Last Bed On Earth (Memoir) Wakefield Press 2009

      American Blow Job (Fiction) Open Books 2010

      Cover Art: From an original painting by Teri Louise Kelly

      This book is dedicated to

      Me

      Body Bags & Toe Tags

      in the most

      extreme of cases

      forensics

      yellow tape

      latex gloves

      plastic slippers

      face masks

      lines

      i got a toe tag

      & a zip up

      body bag

      to go home to my

      mum in

      economy class

      poste resante

      par avian

      reversed charged

      called my bluff

      No Introduction Required (1959)

      You know my name

      &

      you gave me

      the identifying number,

      &

      so said

      John McVicar

      &

      I agree.

      the night before my execution

      all appeals denied,

      all stays overruled,

      all words said,

      all tears cried,

      all the lies underlined in red for no redemption

      i'm thinking i might have missed

      out on a point

      or theorem

      or serum by not getting joyce,

      fitzgerald

      even mailer

      though thankful i got bukowski

      & orwell & you can't get them all right?

      & the priest comes & asks me to confess & seek the forgiveness of his god thing

      i decline

      no time for theologicals

      no get out of jail card

      in a stacked deck

      i read some of ham on rye again

      the sun doesn't rise

      only sets

      as the clock ticks & the metronome counts the beats left

      & the juice goes on – the tender kiss of volts & they come noisily

      & i wish i'd chosen the italian not the thai last night

      one finally

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