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HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY by Hannah V Warren

by Hannah V Warren / Wednesday, 12 November 2025 / Published in Featured Fiction, Issue 34, Poetry
Red haired woman smiles widely in front of a brick wall. https://fourwayreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Warren-Hollywood-Forever-Cemetery.mp3

Los Angeles, CA

 

dear hollywood                                                          Snapshot
       Paint me       indian Peafowl        
                                                              persuade me a Succulent 

my sister & I are       lonely
                                                                       the   dead   are   Good
company
only when I’m alone    with Them      a lonely with them

     Horsehair pattern & revolt 
 
                                   we argue over      Mallards
Violence vs Nurture                               don’t vomit           in the
Rosebushes

                                                                               don’t sleep in the
                                           Crypts      
                  don’t piss on the Geese

                                                          don’t desecrate judy garland
don’t cremation            don’t steal johnny ramone’s Guitar 
                                                                                            &  use  it  as  a
                                            Vibrator

rip : strawberry clover & bur clover & wall barley
we Snake our hats                                    Fill   them   with   pink     
Peppercorns
                      lavender scallop a daisy chain to Death

my sister & I fill                            Perfume Bottles with blood      
                                                                                          &   sell   it to
                                                                        tourists
we knock   Bones on tin cans          & call it Religion
                               we remember                 all the ways we      are
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& the Remembering hurts

 

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About Hannah V Warren

Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, and scholar living between Birmingham, AL, and Gambier, OH, where she works at Kenyon College as the Kenyon Review Fellow. Along with authoring the poetry collections Hurricane Pastoral (Sundress 2027) and Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (Sundress 2024), she has received support from Fulbright-Germany, the PEN/Heim Translation Grant, Bread Loaf, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Warren’s writing and research often explore the intersections of gender and perceived monstrosity.

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