Part_Time Rhyme
Girls’ Club 117 NE 2nd Street Ft Lauderdale, FL 954.828.9151 www.girlsclubcollection.org
e h t t u o Ab t c e J o pr The Challenge:
In honor of National Poetry Month, Inspire part-time poets to write short, rhyming poems inspired by artwork in Girls’ Club’s 2014-2015 exhibit The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona.
The Mission:
To inspire the hidden poet inside everyone.
By: Bailey Glazer Girls’ Club’s intern
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2009 by Nina Chanel Abney
Oh, Mr.Pig, when did you get so big? I knew you when you were just a babe, before you were spade. Alas, now you are eight. About to go on your first date. I love you, you dork, forever or until you become pork. -Bailey Glazer
To some I ma y look small To some I ma y look tall But to me I'm just one of th em, Surrounded b y my dolls. To some I ma ke look crazy To some I ma y look shady But to me I'm just a little gir l Stuck in the body of an old lady. -Darnel Giov ani
Grandma Ruby Smoking Pall Malls faces Wrinkled es sement c a a c l n p e n i n r e bu Lin a single s d n u o r Sur e Lit aflam in y brain pa A life of st still wracks m I lo The one re the I wasn't blaze he To stop t se reminders he And so t ze ga Hold my ay urr -Allie M
Grandma Ruby loves to smoke while she listens to the frogs croak. She says they cry to her in the morning time and sing to her when she feels like crying. Grandma Ruby loves to hear the frogs because they distract her from all the coughing. Grandma Ruby loves to smoke while she listens to the frogs croak. She says they talk to her when she feels sad and scream at her when she feels mad. Grandma Ruby loves to hear the frogs because they distract her from all the coughing. -Amanda Michelle Perez
2002 r e i z a r F y b u R by LaToya
Little dolls, little dolls As fragile as you, along the wall But the lines on your face The cigarette between your lips Suggest a hardened grace A weary ship And you're nothing like a doll Not at all -Sarah Notley
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Gone fishing, Dreaming of today's catch and wishing. Just a normal day on the water, wait whats that out yonder? A fin swimming our way, Its our lucky day. It's a big one, I can tell, hold your seat, we're in for a swell. It's time to deploy! Ahoy Ahoy! -Dom Inic
I told you we shoud have gone to disney instead. Now this shark will bite off my head. If you only listened when we were pick ing our trip. If only you heard my advice and took my tips. We would be riding splash mountain or taking pictures with Mickey. Now I will get eaten by a shark and I've never even had my first hickey. If you thought we w ould survive, you're truly crazy. Our future is looking th in and very hazy. This trip became a very quick complic ation. If we make it out alive, next tim e, I'm picking the vaca tion. -Jen Chia
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ld d, truth be to e r a c s r e g n I’m no lo g just got old in y ll u b t n ta eat Your cons constant thr e th , s d r o w you’ll get ll The hurtful a is d e n r t back tu will be a figh ight! e r Tonight, my e th d n a ton my way re going out a s Try to get in ie d la s u oots on, Hair done, b ergast rend -LeeBetsy P No girl wa nts to lose h But it hap pens if sh er mind, e doesn't ta To be free ke the tim to ride e to unwin and leave d bad thoug hts to the Let the ple side as -Megan C ures collide... and e astellon njoy the fr eedom wit h
pride.
If you leave now, where will I go? Who will I be, how will I know? Who will tell me who not to trust Or clear my eyes from all the dust Get off the car You know I'm right You're making a scene Let's not start a fight Our daughter's here! What sort of example is this?! Take your damn things Or you'll be seeing my fists! -Amy Murray
He won't stay, or be here long He won't laugh, or sing our songs I know it's hard, but stay for me I’ll never stop needing you, can't you see? -Sarah Axelrad
2013 or l y a T h t e b a z i l by Alison E
nt to stay. a w t o . y n a e w m a ake Trying to run dded belt m tu s d n a ts n a reason. Your cargo p ed a "wife beater" for a call ll seasons. a h g u o Your shirt is r th r, ne, foreve Leave me alo n this car. ere o Forget me h afar. taring from s r e v lo . y m With ou never did y , e m e v r e You dont des r and my kid. e ca I'm taking th zer -Morgan Gla
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2013 by Lori Nix
d, My mind my min er cleaned Like a room I nev n the floor A book of love, o ging on the door n a h s n o ss le e if L new istakes, begin a To clean up my m head, I bid adieu y m e d si in ss e To the m -Darnel Giovani
It's quite a mess, I will confess Books all on the floor. But I will not stress, life's like a game of chess My studio is m In a rush, I'm out the door. y living room P apers, books, w Maybe one day I'll get it together. ork in every co rner Light dances in Maybe someday, depends on the weather to fight the glo om Here I am no fo I just might organize it all. reigner Clear room, cle Until then, I'll drown in my treasure. ar mind Means nothing What you see as chaos, I see as pleasure . to me No bounds on m But this weekend the maid I will call. y creativity Or the inspirati -LeeBetsy Prendergast ons I find I live in this roo m -Sarah Notley
s. always a mes is it y h w r e d n o Sometimes I w an would I?” I detest. to cle gether. “If I had time t I have it all to a th d n te re p ess forever. m It’s too late to a y ta s l il w g room e too Maybe my livin e bathroom, and the garag true. en, th thought to be r e v e I Like the kitch n a th o much more This mess is s t care? or do I just no zy la t s do not share. ju I e I s s m e A m is th r ped paint on th ove s ip e h c m e o c th e r n o o r, e floo Since no the dust on th e e s r e v e l il w No one ll. ugh when I fa la l il w e n o wall. o n , e trip on piles , No one sees m I wish someone would see an with me. n le w c o d to p e e n e o d e e m b May ad so go away if I h ld u o w s s e m This -Jen Chia
Trying to stay warm in this coat Trying to kee p this lump o ut of my thro But I could fe at el my eyes b urn hot And the gros s build up of snot As I rememb er my mothe r Pouring me a glass of milk Her perfume , her Whenever I w blouses of silk as sad Always askin g if I needed another Drinking milk till I didn’t fe el bad
And now my grief comes out White milk te ars down my cheek And my head full of doubts As I fight off defeat -Sarah Notle y
dairy t these tears of a re a st d n a p to S fairy? e of this lactose What has becom dergast -LeeBetsy Pren
Step rig ht u She wea p! Come watch rs a long th gray coa e lady who crie She prov sm tw id I promis es more dairy th ith brown hair s ilk. e she’s s o at the co afe she ws on th ft like silk. Some m w e fa ay ill But no m laugh and stare cause you no ha rm. r atter wh at her te at you sa ars whit m. She love e as sno yn st w. Someon he attention, so o emotions will e who’s s g h e e t in s h line a ow ver She is ra re to the y different from nd you’ll see, you eye The show is free, a and makes you and from me. -Jen Ch n loo d free is ia the best k twice. price!
Crying Out Milk
1998 by Amy Cutler
For several days, I've been feeling sick tick Couldn't tell what was wrong or what was making me Tried to stay composed, and tried to stay calm Each minute felt like a ticking time bomb My eyes--watery, my body--wilt Then there I was crying out milk This odd feeling did not subside Only thing I could do was runaway and hide -Mercedes Lardizabal
in my mind ll a s e n li k Squiggly pin the time ll of I see them a e I'm awake rs for peet sake! il h w e m g e Mockin ons my burg opes that I'll be fine. is o p e m li s hh The pink ese lines wit th e p a c s e I've got to y -Allie Murra Orange and brow n and red Swirling in my h ead Pink slime Seeps in my min d
Pink Slime 2012 z t i d n a S a s i L by
What if my thou ghts didn’t look like this? A gooey mass o f mired bliss Coloring this bu ilding, land, my fortress Stealing the gre ens and golds Will the wind blo w the slime awa y? Will the sunlight cause its decay ? It’s my thoughts of you, warm an d old Replay replay re play Pink slime Eating my mind -Sarah Notley
The children weeping for toxic dreams and gases. Thoughts escape, seeping. -Nicholas O’Hare
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The Race
2011 t e m o P o c a P by
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3 ducks in a pond, 3 ducks and a swan. The dog is swimming along side us, and we try not to make a fuss. I murdered my neighbor last week nobody has found me out I've decided to change my face Fuck the Miami FBI office Either way, I'm going out shooting -Erica Mohan
Photo by Teodora Dakova
Throughout the month of April, Girls’ Club posted images from our current exhibt, The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona. to a Part-Time Rhyme Facebook event page. We asked participants to write rhyming poems inspired by the art and to enter them as a comment or post on the event wall, as well as “Like” their favorite poems and share with friends! At the end of the month, poems were published in this Zine and dispersed, for free, during the Fort Lauderdale ArtWalk, during the Miami Zine Fair, and at partnering venues.
About Girls club Girls’ Club is a 501(c)3 private foundation and alternative space established in 2006 by Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. Girls’ Club produces exhibitions, educational programming, publications and events that change lives, nurture local artists, and inspire cultural growth in South Florida. Girls’ Club is the only private collection open to the public that focuses on contemporary art by women in the world. Part-Time Rhyme is orgainzed by Bailey Glazer, Girls’ Club’s spring graphic design intern in 2015. Bailey is a graphic designer and emerging art and marketing professional residing in Fort Lauderdale. She is currently a marketing student at Nova Southeastern University and is graduating in Fall 2015.
e m y h R n i s Partner Girls’ Club thanks our parterns-in-rhyme for helping support this project.