Delilah Silberman
Martha Plimpton on TV again!
What a beautiful day
for my friends to catch fire.
Run, friends. You’re on fire.
I love Martha Plimpton
with her silver dress and sexy
man on her arm. I love red bikinis,
but not on me. Don’t look!
It’s me alone in this cool body.
The day my house burned down,
a flood would have helped.
I carry my friends in the rain.
They are all made of wood.
from the journal GUESTHOUSE
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My mother went to elementary school with the actress Martha Plimpton, who once borrowed her red bikini. I began with that image, and started thinking about how interiority functions and exposes itself during moments of chaos and loss. In this case, like a house burning down, which is an experience my family had when I was young.
 
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