FAVORITES LIST (an ever-accumulating poemlist)
Favorite color: periwinkle
Favorite book: “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
Favorite thing I’ve ever written:
“Things I Want To Do When I’m 13
1. Get a boyfriend
2. Have a bat mitzvah”
(written at age ten) (one out of two ain’t bad)
Favorite overheard pick-up line: “Your eyes are the color of my Porsche.”
Favorite human: Misha
Favorite strip club name: Nudie Cuties
Favorite finger: pinky
Favorite cocktail: “The Hillcrest Gizz”
Favorite way someone has misheard my first name over the phone: Kayra
Favorite soda: ROOT BEER!
Favorite animal: baby animals
Favorite thing about being an adult: throwing legal house parties
Favorite part about 4th grade: being the tallest girl in my grade
Favorite Celine Dionne song: “Because You Loved Me”
Favorite term of endearment that I’ve been called: “my little delicatessen”
Favorite part about going to the dentist: free tiny toothpaste!
Favorite wax: beeswax
Favorite way to eat kale: with my friends!
Favorite metal: copper
Favorite organ: brain
Favorite flower: dahlia. no sweetpea. or paperwhites!
Favorite rapper: Cam’ron
Favorite punctuation mark: colon
Favorite geometric shape: cone
Favorite fake invention name: The Nipple Fondler 2000
Favorite club I’ve created this year: The Poets’ Trampoline Club
Favorite pun using way/whey: “Move bitch, get out the whey”
Favorite outdoor activity: singing
Favorite sister: Sarah Schoenberg Katz
Favorite college: Connecticut College
Favorite dog: N/A
Favorite name of a past dentist: B.J. Mistry (say it out loud) (this is not a joke)
Favorite food on the seder plate: charoset!
Favorite modern acronym: YOLO
Favorite mustard: honey
Favorite way to wear a headband: the west coast way
Favorite thing to do when lots of people are over at my house: make each of them wear one of my hats
Favorite item available at a haberdashery: cufflinks
Favorite point at which to eat a banana: when it has a smattering of freckles
Favorite laugh: Scott Ballum’s
Favorite food that I never used to eat because I loved pigs and was a vegetarian but now eat all the time because pigs taste good and I am a flexitarian farmer: BACON
Favorite Woody Allen movie: “Midnight in Paris”
Favorite heat source: body heat
Favorite adjective: “deluxe”
Favorite name of a stop on the Croton-Harmon train line: Spuyten Duyvil
Favorite gay Pisces New York School poet: Frank O’Hara
Favorite gay Scorpio New York School poet: James Schuyler
Favorite bagel: everything with scallion cream cheese, please
Favorite basil variety name: Spicy Bush
Favorite city: NYC
Favorite name of a motel off I-95: The Honeyspot
Favorite remedy for when my hair gets greasy: stay home
Favorite yoga position: bird of paradise
Favorite food that Misha is making right now as I write this: hummus
Favorite way to end a poem: with an image that will sear into your mind forever
Favorite part about NPR: when they play short music clips in between shows
Favorite thing that’s about to happen: baby chicks and ducklings are going to arrive at my doorstep
The end. For now. The favorites are always accumulating.
panache, perhaps 