The 10 most popular names for girls, based upon Social Security Administration statistics as of May 2010:
1. Emma
2. Isabella
3. Emily
4. Madison
5. Ava
6. Olivia
7. Sophia
8. Abigail
9. Elizabeth
10. Chloe
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Stabbed last night in the guts
Barefoot in a suit colored smoke
Dropping your blue bodega tulips
And awaking with hands clenching
An unscathed midriff, unable to speak

Noon on a Tuesday painted headache grey
1/5 of the office left sick the day before
A collective something airborne
Number me another victim of the temp work war

Sore and slowly pour myself into a
Leonard cohen bath, lethargic and viscous
Like Nyquil consumed just prior
My modern day unemployment jukebox
Croons to Suzanne, and so long, Marianne,
You know that’s no way to say goodbye
This medicine haze, and steam, and thoughts
Like fog upon the lake
Names, these names are lost and foreign today
Names standing like myths, sung by the monoliths
Of before my youth
Where are they today
No glorias coming to the room upstairs,
No marys on the front porch longing for escape
While the wind cries her name
All the girls would love alice
If there were any around these days
Where are the judys, with eyes of blue,
Who should I write this suite to?

Clearly I don’t fit in this apartment tub,
Nude, rubber legs pretzeled, while
Soapy waves crash onto my white belly,
Looking like a sandbar in the keys.

Rosanna & Cecilia picked up
Sweet jane & Ruby Tuesday on the corner
Witchy women and brown eyed girls
Cooking up what must be by now
The 87th way to leave your lover
Diane left jack alone behind
The tastee-freeze, alone with
Visions of Johanna, visions only
And those in my mind, my modern
Day peggy sue, my aim is true
I will pen your song, an ode
To the 21st century American girl
With the interchangeable name