Olivia Gatwood
Born
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, The United States
February 23, 1992
Website
Twitter
Genre
Life of the Party
9 editions
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2019
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New American Best Friend (E.P. Chapbooks)
4 editions
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2017
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The Selected Poetry
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19 editions
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1991
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Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
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3 editions
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2020
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Whoever You Are, Honey
5 editions
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2024
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Snitch
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2020
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Drunk Sugar
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Girl Driver
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Correos de ultramar (Escuela para Señoritas #2)
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Another Conversation with Myself
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2016
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“One more thing
when they call you a bitch, say thank you. say thank you, very much.”
― New American Best Friend
when they call you a bitch, say thank you. say thank you, very much.”
― New American Best Friend
“ALTERNATE UNIVERSE IN WHICH I AM UNFAZED BY THE MEN WHO DO NOT LOVE ME when the businessman shoulder checks me in the airport, i do not apologize. instead, i write him an elegy on the back of a receipt and tuck it in his hand as i pass through the first class cabin. like a bee, he will die after stinging me. i am twenty-four and have never cried. once, a boy told me he doesn’t “believe in labels” so i embroidered the word chauvinist on the back of his favorite coat. a boy said he liked my hair the other way so i shaved my head instead of my pussy. while the boy isn’t calling back, i learn carpentry, build a desk, write a book at the desk. i taught myself to cum from counting ceiling tiles. the boy says he prefers blondes and i steam clean his clothes with bleach. the boy says i am not marriage material and i put gravel in his pepper grinder. the boy says period sex is disgusting and i slaughter a goat in his living room. the boy does not ask if he can choke me, so i pretend to die while he’s doing it. my mother says this is not the meaning of unfazed. when the boy says i curse too much to be pretty and i tattoo “cunt” on my inner lip, my mother calls this “being very fazed.” but left over from the other universe are hours and hours of waiting for him to kiss me and here, they are just hours. here, they are a bike ride across long island in june. here, they are a novel read in one sitting. here, they are arguments about god or a full night’s sleep. here, i hand an hour to the woman crying outside of the bar. i leave one on my best friend’s front porch, send my mother two in the mail. i do not slice his tires. i do not burn the photos. i do not write the letter. i do not beg. i do not ask for forgiveness. i do not hold my breath while he finishes. the man tells me he does not love me, and he does not love me. the man tells me who he is, and i listen. i have so much beautiful time.”
― New American Best Friend
― New American Best Friend
“They will tell you home is safe zone.
No, bitch face is safe zone.
Bitch face is home.
Bitch face is cutting off the ladder,
willing to burn in the apartment,
if it means he can't get in.”
― New American Best Friend
No, bitch face is safe zone.
Bitch face is home.
Bitch face is cutting off the ladder,
willing to burn in the apartment,
if it means he can't get in.”
― New American Best Friend
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