The Italian sparkling wine’s high sugar content could leave frequent drinkers with rotten teeth, dentists are warning.
Prosecco has taken the nation by storm as a cheaper alternative to champagne, but young women in particular risk gaining an unwelcome ‘prosecco smile.’
—Daily Mail
her smile’s so lovely her laughter is bubbling
her hair is frizzante her perlage is perky
fresh light and simple she’s frothy uncorked above
all she’s social she’s pouring out plenty but two
is enough she goes straight to your head—her every
hiccup sounds like a yes her arms are like bottles
cold hard and brittle but her center’s a pillow,
she’s old-fashioned stuff rap her back tenderly hold
the white napkin tent-ly while we thumb her top off
then she’s pissing prosecco fizzing and sighing
let her breathe as you nose her effervescent hic-
cough and if the label says Cava she calls it
prosecco meaning cheapest of specials last on
the rung now she’s tranquil and sparkling she’s swill-gilled
with sulfites we can’t have her turning it’s sweetness
we want her smiling and smiling her blanc de blancs
gums you should drink her with food but nobody does
and her smile is crumbling incisors jumping
three years on the rack then her vintage is up her
whistle is showing, her laughter’s abraded tell
her to shut up still her mouth moves to much chalk it
down to her drinking her red palm to the bar top—
she smiles prosecco! it’s prosecco she wants
Evangeline Riddiford Graham is an artist and writer from Aotearoa. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks La belle dame avec les mains vertes (Compound Press, 2019), and Ginesthoi (hard press, 2017). She is in the second year of the New School Creative Writing MFA and lives in Queens.
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