Femmewise Cat Part II

“you know, hot in their hajibees or whatever” The rest of the audience chuckles because she is blonde and cute and American so she doesn’t need to say things right.

So, she tells us, I put on my bikini… here the scene flashes to the blonde donning her stars and stripes bikini the stripes barely covering anything and the stars even less.

She says, I started posing you know like, a supermodel a few men in the audience make wolf noises and chuckle and this guy, she says goes “I love America” in this super middle eastern accent and I said, that’s because we’re the best. and she flips her blonde hair over her shoulder and sits down as the USA USA USA chanting begins just across the street where on a world stage we scored another goal with another bomb in another unnamed town.

Author bio: Ally Malinenko is the author of the poetry collection The Wanting Bone (Six Gallery Press), the children's book Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb (Antenna Books) and the novel This Is Sarah (BookFish Books). She lives in the part of Brooklyn that the tour buses don't come to.