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Lady With Dog

from Traffic Island by Susie Asado

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LADY WITH DOG

I dressed up in a pretty frock
borrowed my grandmother's dog
my sister took my photograph
and there I was a lady

and if you look closely
at the image that my sister took
you will see the woman that I could
turn out to be if everything goes swimmingly

my mother says "Kleider machen Leute"
which means fine feathers make fine birds
or clothes make the man
but it is not men I'm speaking of here

I am speaking of a lady
a lady with her dog
of the lady she is
and the one she will become

in a bright green garden
with a dog on a leash
she looks smart and she is smart
and "her life isn't very hard"

think of all the photographs films paintings
of ladies with their dogs
and now I am one of them
most certainly in a process of becoming

of becoming from the outside in
from the dress and the dog to the fraud
there isn't a thing about me that's flawed
call me Susie Sandy or Maud

so here I go doing lady things (whatever they may be)
and here I go saying lady things (whatever they may be)
and here I go thinking lady things (whatever they may be)
and here I go drinking lady things (whatever they may be)
they may be tea they may be tea

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from Traffic Island, released December 9, 2011

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Susie Asado Berlin, Germany

Susie Asado lives in Berlin. That is the band, not the poem. The poem is by Gertrude Stein. Yes, there is such a poem. The band is not a poem. It is a band. Josepha writes the songs. She takes this very seriously, as she takes the band very seriously and of course the poem, that is Gertrude Stein very seriously. ... more

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