At work there is a sculpture by my desk 
with a pineapple on it and every week I have
to change the pineapple before it gets too ripe
and starts dripping on the sculpture
which is $40k. Today I walked to the grocery store
to buy a new pineapple. The clerk asked me
if I was from that museum. I said, It’s
a gallery. I explained the sculpture. He said
“That must be one expensive pineapple” & I said
Not until you put it on the sculpture. I walked
down Santa Monica Blvd clutching the pineapple.
When I got back someone had stuck a small sign
in the sidewalk in front of the gallery which read:
GARAGE SALE In my Ass In my Fucking ASS

Claire Dougherty  

can be found in Fence, Second Factory, Iterant, Wyrm, and TAGVVERK. Her chapbook The Claire Bitch Project is forthcoming from Theaphora. She is a co-founder and co-editor of RECLINER. She was born and raised in Stockton, CA, and lives and works in Los Angeles.