Victoria Chang

MR. DARCY TALKS
March 26, 2017 Chang Victoria

MR. DARCY TALKS

 

Mr. Darcy talks to the same woman

says the same things

 

over and over every waiter looks like

him Barbie Chang

 

slouches on couches ready for redlining

there are red lions in all

 

of her dreams they spew out reams

of his long brown hair

 

when will it be her turn when can she

move onto another

 

town and wait in her gown for another

man she picks his

 

lines from a tree to make wine and

drink his words

 

while she waits to see if she can get

into his heart for free

 

she waits all night even the stars abuse

her like bouncers

 

with their winking pretending she has

a chance of getting

 

in when she smells her hands in the

morning they smell

 

used she knew Mr. Darcy could never

love anyone else but

 

Elizabeth she is just a character still she

will always be better

Victoria Chang’s fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s) won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017.