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Back from Work
Did you find the Indian ocean in a pot of luck? Or the love of cups and dice in a gypsy’s trailer? Dinner’s getting cold dear, and some of us are too full for knowledge; Today I drowned in a field...
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I Want You to Be Whole
When I die, I want your hands on my eyes; and the green dress picked up at the drycleaners. Get rid of the Mercedes and buy a Porsche. (I left enough money to last you two generations, darling) Break...
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Driving Miss Daisy
You have anger issues, he tells me. No I don’t! How dare you? I yell and go red in the face. So I set out my day to prove him wrong. I smile at the bank teller and speak in a slow soft voice. He...
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Fight or Flight
She envies the birds and the bees. One day I will be a bird, she whispers to the universe. Free. Her father walks in and she ceases to exist. Eighteen and out, she tells herself. As blows flatten her...
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Things I Need to Tell my Therapist
I think I am three or four days behind with NaPoWriMo…thanks all you lovely people for appreciating my pieces and being so encouraging. But before I catch up on poetry, I just wanted to express my...
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Sunshine, Freedom and a Little Flower
For the first time my grandfather walks slower than grandma; they’ve been through WWII, got here on boats and bicycles, survived the Japanese Occupation that forever changed our last name, (or first...
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Never Good Enough
https://www.facebook.com/TakeBackBeauty Who determines the standard of beauty? What we allow to exist in advertisements and movies determines the depth of a plastic surgeon’s pocket. I want to grow...
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#27 Spring Monologue Erasure
Kate Braverman I want to tell you everything. poison. deserted son. I did drink god. O, myriad Of my mistakes. flower petals Were bankable, eat. control madness. Breath this. It was not the...
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Capitalism is an Interesting Creature
In my armchair sits Philosophy Regal in rags Holding a cup of poison Next to a perpetual fireplace As the great thinkers of mankind line the halls Frantically writing shelves of books, Arguing about...
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Capitalism is an Interesting Creature
In my armchair sits Philosophy Regal in rags Holding a cup of poison Next to a perpetual fireplace As the great thinkers of mankind line the halls Frantically writing shelves of books, Arguing about...
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