88 Lines about 44 Women - The Nails

Deborah was a Catholic girl
She held out to the bitter end
Carla was a different type
She's the one who put it in
Mary was a black girl
And I was afraid of a girl like that
Susan painted pictures sitting down
Like the Buddhists sat
Reno was an aimless girl
A geographic memory
Cathy was a Jesus freak
She liked that kind of misery
Vicky had this special way
Of turning s*x into a song
Camella couldn't sing
Kept the beat and kept it strong
Xylla was an archetype
The voodoo queen the queen of rap
Joan thought men were second best
To masturbating in the bath
Sherri was a feminist
She really had that gift of gab
Kathleen's point of view was this：
Take whatever you can grab
Seattle was another girl
Who left her mark upon the map
Karen liked to tie me up
And left me hanging by a strap
Jeannie had this nightclub walk
That made grown men feel underage
Mary Ellen who had a son
Said I must go but finally stayed
Gloria the last taboo
Was shattered by her tongue one night
Mimi brought the taboo back
And held it up before the light
Marilyn who knew no shame
Was never ever satisfied
Julie came and went so fast
She didn't even say good bye
Well Rhonda had a house in Venice
Lived on brown rice and c*****e
Patty had a house in Houston
Shot cough syrup in her veins
Linda thought her life was empty
Filled it up with alcohol
Katherine was much too pretty
She didn't do that s**t at all
Uh uh
Not Katherine
Pauline thought that love was simple
Turn it on and turn it off
Jean Marie was complicated
Like some French film maker's plot
Gina was the perfect lady
Always kept her stockings straight
Jackie was a rich punk rocker
Silver spoon and a paper plate
Sarah was a modern dancer
Lean pristine transparency
Janet wrote bad poetry
In a crazy kind of urgency
Tanya Turkish liked to f**k
While wearing leather biker boots
Brenda's strange obsession
Was for certain vegetables and fruits
Roeena was an artist's daughter
The deeper image shook her up
Dee dee's mother left her father
Took his money and his truck
Debbie Rae had no such problems
Perfect Norman Rockwell home
Nina sixteen had a baby
Left her parents lived alone
Bobbie joined a new wave band
And changed her name to Bobbie sox
Eloise who played guitar
Sang songs about whales and cops
Terri didn't give a s**t
Just a nihilist
Ronnie was much more my style
She wrote songs just like this
Jezebel went forty days
Drinking nothing but Perrier
Dinah drove her Chevrolet
Into the San Francisco bay
Judy came from Ohio
She's a Scientologist
Pomerante here's a kiss
I chose you to end this list
Eighty eight lines about forty four women