Yasmine Ameli was a finalist in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest. An Iranian American from Worcester, Massachusetts, she holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech.

Why Are You Afraid?

An iPoem

by Yasmine Ameli

The girls got giggly drunk, danced to Russian karaoke under disco-light glitz.

I gulped water in a bar then assessed a man’s height and weight, how hard a fight I’d give.
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