Paris & Nicole have perfect manicures
and they are milking cows. They look so good.
Nails hard as a spell of hail.
Doctors recommend daily usage of SPF 40,
at least, 60 for extra protection—if things get too bright.
Like contemplating a rhinestone. Nicole’s
all like oh my god, it’s too hot outside.
Palm tree decals almost melting & Paris concurs.
Then udder hanging with a cipher’s weight,
the milk spilling; the girls tan against the grass looking good.
Agreement: the easiest kind of knowledge.
We’re always saying a lot of things we don’t mean
to each other. The book fell open on its broken
spine and it said flos for flower, sol for sunlight.
But meant everything. Paris suffered, sighed.
Rebecca Beauchamp is an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. She will be studying at the Ashbery Home School in New York this summer.