Poem: ‘The Spirit Award’
Daisy Fried, 9 February 2012
Most Valuable, Most Improved, and for least valuable unimprovables, the Spirit Award. Skinny in my T-back, I got Most Valuables. Swimming mostly hurt. My shoulders are still big from this.
The chrome-look figures on the trophies were crudely modelled. Some trained artist hunched at her rotating pedestal in her high-ceilinged studio,...