Kim Addonizio

thumb|Kim Addonizio, 2025 Kim Addonizio (born July 31 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Quotes If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever closed your legs to a man you loved opened them for one you didn't moved against a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled into the back seat for lack of a tampon if you swam across a river under rain sang using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire ripped out the stitches in your heart because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is coming Kim Addonizio (American writer) (reprinted in the Times, 28 August 2019, p.7) External links Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:People from Washington, D.C.