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Elizabeth Clare - “How To Talk To A New Lover About Cerebral Palsy” from ‘My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems’ ed. Lesléa Newman

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[The pages read: 

Elizabeth Clare
“How To Talk To a New Lover About Cerebral Palsy"  

Tell her: Complete strangers 
have patted by head, kissed
my cheek, called me courageous

Tell this story more than once, ask
her to hold you, rock you
against her body, breast to back, 

her arms curving round, only 
you flinch unchosen, right arm trembles.
Don’t use the word spastic

In Europe after centuries 
of death by exposure
and drowning,
they banished us
to the streets. 

Let her feel the tension burn down your arms,
tremors jump. Take it slow: when she asks
about the difference between CP and MS, 

refrain from handing her an encyclopedia.
If you leave, know that you will ache.
Resist the urge to ignore your body. Tell her:  

They taunted me retard, cripple,
defect. The words sank into my body.
The rocks and fists left bruises.

Gimps and crips, caps
in hand, we still
wander the streets but now
the options abound: telethons,
nursing homes, and welfare lines. 

Try not to be ashamed as you flinch and tremble
under her warm hands. Think of the stories
you haven’t told yet. Tension grips fierce. 

Ask her what she thinks as your hands shake
along her body, sleep curled against her,
and remember to listen: she might surprise you.]



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