{"id":3388,"date":"2015-07-04T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2015-07-13T01:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T01:57:45","slug":"blue-rider-jan-beatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"BLUE RIDER — Jan Beatty"},"content":{"rendered":"

for Nikki<\/em>
\n 
\nI met a descendant of Zebulon Pike (Pike\u2019s Peak)
\nin Santa Fe. She told me that she thought a blow job
\nwas when you went to the beauty salon to get your
\nhair done\u00ac, I mean your hair down there.
\nShe thought it was a blow\/dye job, maybe
\na blue rider [cobalt for the cold Colorado nights]
\nor a low chapparal [for the tough brush and desert
\nbrowns] She shared all this with her teenage friends,
\nand they believed. They had questions:
\nIf it\u2019s a dirty thing with boys, then why do you
\ngo to the salon?
\nI was always afraid of it, but now I think I\u2019ll
\nget a desert gold
\n[landing strip the color of home-grown maize]
\nThe burning question: if Pike\u2019s Peak is one of the
\nbiggest cocks in the world
\n(highest of the southern Front Range of the Rockies)
\nthen shouldn\u2019t there be a fourteener?
\n[longest tallest pussy hair west of the Mississippi\u2014
\nbleached and snow-covered]
\nWhat would Zebulon say?
\nHe was a fan of the front range, why not
\nthe pink granite (sexier than potassium feldspar)
\n[pink front lawn with shaved steps to glory]
\nthe chokecherry (for thorny S&M)
\n[dark red with a too-tight weave]
\nWhen her friends made an appointment for a blow job,
\nthey sat under the dryers in the salon, their heads
\nfried. My friend, the descendant, found out about
\nsucking, became a blue rider, and the 14,115 ft. cock
\nof the Rockies erupted.
\n 
\n 
\nJAN BEATTY\u2019S books include The Switching\/Yard, Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River<\/em> (Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize), published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Beatty hosts and produces Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WESA-FM featuring national writers. She worked as a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, in maximum security prisons, and as a waitress for fifteen years. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she teaches in the MFA program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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